Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| 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, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, sleazy*, slipshod, squalid, tacky*, tattered, threadbare, tired, worn, worn-out, worse for wear, wretched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ragged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn-out; in shreds |
| Synonyms: | badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, contemptible, crude, desultory, dilapidated, dingy, disorganized, down at the heel, fragmented, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in holes, in rags, in tatters, irregular, jagged, mean, moth-eaten, notched, patched, poor, poorly made, rent, rough, rugged, scraggy, seedy, serrated, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, shredded, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, uneven, unfinished, unkempt, unpressed, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | even, kempt, new, smooth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | two-bit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, worth very little |
| Synonyms: | base, catchpenny, cheesy, crappy*, cruddy, garbage, gaudy, inferior, junky, lousy, no good, piddling, poor, ratty, rinky-dink, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, trashy, valueless, worthless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scrubby |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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