Decrepit Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-krĕpĭt
Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bedraggled
  2. broken-down
  3. decaying
  4. dilapidated
  5. dingy
  6. down-at-heel
  7. faded
  8. mangy
  9. rundown
  10. scrubby
  11. scruffy
  12. seedy
  13. shabby
  14. shoddy
  15. sleazy
  16. tattered
  17. tatty
  18. threadbare
  19. tacky
  20. ratty
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weak

Words Related to Decrepit

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. old
  2. strong
  3. better
  4. delapidated
  5. ramshackle

Decrepit Sentence Examples

  • She opened her eyes and looked around, not recognizing the decrepit factory.

  • The provincial schools, dependent upon so decrepit an alma mater, were suffered to decay.

  • After a year's service in Congress in 1782-1783, in which he experienced the futility of endeavouring to attain through that decrepit body the ends he sought, he settled down to legal practice in New York.

  • A thin, somewhat decrepit man slowly edged in.

  • Edward, though only in his fifty-seventh year, was entering into a premature and decrepit old age, in which he became the prey of unworthy favorites, male and female.

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