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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shabby |
| Synonyms: | all the worse for wear, bare, bedraggled, broken-down, crummy, cure, decayed, decaying, decrepit, degenerated, desolate, deteriorated, deteriorating, dilapidated, dingy, disfigured, disreputable, dog-eared, down-at-heel, faded, frayed, gone to seed, mangy, meager, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, pitiful, poor, pot, poverty-stricken, ragged, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rundown, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, sleazy*, slipshod, squalid, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, tired, worn, worn-out, worse for wear, wretched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Concept: | Relief. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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relieving; consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne (remedial); curative.
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| Antonyms: | aggravation |
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| Concept: | Restoration. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-adjectives
restored; redivivus, convalescent; in a fair way; none the worse; rejuvenated., restoring; restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial., restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrieveable, curable., in statu quo; as you were.
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| Antonyms: | relapse, deterioration |
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