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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well; flimsy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, crazed, dangerous, decrepit, defective, delicate, demented, deranged, diseased, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, fragile, frail, ill, illogical, in poor health, inaccurate, incongruous, incorrect, infirm, insane, insecure, insubstantial, invalid, lunatic, mad, not solid, rickety, shaky, specious, tottering, unbacked, unbalanced, unhealthy, unhinged, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, unwell, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | safe, sound, stable, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | daft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid; crazy |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daffy, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky*, foolish, fried, giddy, half-baked, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless |
| Antonyms: | brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | damaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
| Synonyms: | beat-up, bent, blemished, busted, dinged, down, flawed, flubbed, fouled up, glitched, gone, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in need of repair, in poor condition, in smithereens, injured, kaput, loused up, marred, messed up, mucked up, no go, on the blink, on the fritz, out of action, out of kilter, out of whack, run-down, screwed up, shot, snafued, spoiled, sunk, totaled, unsound |
| Antonyms: | fixed, mended, ok, perfect, repaired, unbroken, undamaged, working |
| Main Entry: | decrepit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age |
| Synonyms: | aged, anile, antiquated, battered, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crippled, dilapidated, doddering, effete, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, haggard, incapacitated, infirm, insubstantial, old, quavering, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, senile, shabby, shaking, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, tired, tottering, tumble-down, unsound, used, wasted, weak, weakly, weather-beaten, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy, young |
| Main Entry: | defective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amiss, blemished, damaged, deficient, faulty, flawed, impaired, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, injured, insufficient, lacking, on the bum, out of order, poor, seconds, sick, subnormal, unfinished, unhealthy, unsound, wanting |
| Notes: | defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree |
| Antonyms: | excellent, faultless, flawless, perfect, unbroken |
| Main Entry: | demented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one's gourd, out of one's tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unsound, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible |
| Main Entry: | deranged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | ape, baked, bananas, berserk, cracked, crazed, delirious, demented, disarranged, disconcerted, disordered, displaced, distracted, dotty, flipped, flipped out, frantic, frenzied, fried, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, maniacal, nuts, perplexed, schizzo, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unscrewed, unsettled, unsound, unzipped, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, ok, sane |
| Main Entry: | diseased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, indisposed, infected, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy |
| Main Entry: | erroneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, incorrect |
| Synonyms: | all off, all wet, amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off, specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, way off, wrong number |
| Antonyms: | correct, right, true, valid |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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