Dilapidated Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-lăpĭ-dātĭd
Falling to ruin
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ramshackle
  2. ruinous
  3. rundown
  4. tumbledown
Antonyms:
  1. in good repair
  2. rebuilt
Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. decrepit
  2. rundown
  3. decaying
  4. bedraggled
  5. dingy
  6. broken-down
  7. neglected
  8. shabby
  9. ramshackle
  10. threadbare
  11. tatterdemalion
  12. derelict
  13. down-at-heel
  14. battered
  15. faded
  16. beggarly
  17. mangy
  18. damaged
  19. scrubby
  20. scruffy
  21. tumbledown
  22. in disrepair
  23. seedy
  24. dismantled
  25. shoddy
  26. disreputable
  27. sleazy
  28. tattered
  29. tatty
  30. tacky
  31. retrogressive
  32. ratty
  33. shot
  34. tumble-down
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. decay
  2. dilapidation

Words Related to Dilapidated

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. crumbly
  2. better
  3. old
  4. delapidated
  5. semi-derelict
  6. roofless
  7. run down
  8. cramped

Dilapidated Sentence Examples

  • A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove.

  • On the east of the town at the foot of a hill stands a dilapidated fort.

  • He continued through the streets and slowed when he reached a dilapidated, boarded-up church on a corner.

  • They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-collecting princes of Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated condition.

  • In the near distance, beyond the other dilapidated buildings on the abandoned street, came the sound of small arms laser fire.

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