What is another word for dilapidated?
749 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪlˈapɪdˌe͡ɪtɪd], [ dɪlˈapɪdˌeɪtɪd], [ d_ɪ_l_ˈa_p_ɪ_d_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_d]
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Similar words for dilapidated:
- bedraggled (adjective)
- decrepit (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- deteriorated (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- disintegrated (adjective)
- falling apart; in ruins (adjective)
- grungy (adjective)
- moth-eaten (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- ragged (adjective)
- ramshackle (adjective)
- rickety (adjective)
- ruined (adjective)
- run-down (adjective)
- scraggly (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- sleazy (adjective)
- tacky (adjective)
- tattered (adjective)
- tumbledown (adjective)
- uninhabitable (adjective)
- unkempt (adjective)
- worn out (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- deteriorated (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Dilapidated:
adj.
• bedraggled (adjective) • decrepit (adjective)- in-firmest,
- tumble down,
- in capacitated,
- un-sounder,
- in firmer,
- more quavering,
- most tumble down,
- more fragile,
- un-sound,
- in-firm,
- more tumble down,
- un sounder,
- more battered,
- superannuated,
- weather beaten,
- fragile,
- in-substantial,
- un sound,
- most anile,
- most tumble-down,
- most quavering,
- in firmest,
- brokendown,
- creakiest,
- more anile,
- in substantial,
- un-soundest,
- most worn out,
- more tumble-down,
- in-capacitated,
- un soundest,
- in-firmer,
- most battered.
- dis carded,
- more ownerless,
- more relinquished,
- un-couth,
- more castoff,
- dis-carded,
- most castoff,
- de-solate,
- most ownerless,
- solitary,
- de relict,
- most relinquished,
- un couth,
- de solate,
- de-relict.
- more bedimmed,
- more smirched,
- more tarnished,
- most tarnished,
- more discolored,
- more darkish,
- most bedimmed,
- dis-colored,
- most darkish,
- drab,
- be dimmed,
- most discolored,
- most smirched,
- be-dimmed,
- dis colored.
- festering,
- dissected,
- molten,
- rotten,
- decomposed,
- mortified,
- dissolved,
- turned,
- Degenerated,
- gangrenous,
- Anatomized,
- spoiled,
- crumbled.
- raunchy,
- old,
- crumbly,
- fallen-in,
- worn-out,
- rinky-dink,
- used-up,
- crummy,
- unimproved.
- dis-gusting,
- scuzzier,
- scummy,
- un cleaner,
- cruddier,
- un cleanest,
- un clean,
- un-cleanest,
- scuzziest,
- un washed,
- un-cleaner,
- cruddiest,
- dis gusting,
- slimier,
- un-washed,
- scummiest.
- scrubby,
- ramshackle,
- scraggy,
- in tatters,
- uncared for,
- in disrepair,
- in a bad way,
- run-down,
- unneat,
- wornout,
- dingy,
- unpressed,
- castoff,
- Fordone,
- in firm,
- down at the heel,
- the worse for wear,
- shabby,
- worn out,
- poorly made,
- gone to seed,
- moth-eaten,
- unstylish,
- unkempt,
- untended,
- unfastidious,
- ragged,
- ownerless,
- dog-eared,
- ratty,
- scuzzy,
- ruined,
- rachitic,
- weatherbeaten,
- used up,
- creakier,
- down at heel,
- derelict,
- cruddy,
- tacky,
- grungy,
- tatty,
- badly worn,
- scraggly,
- broken down,
- unrespectable,
- beat-up,
- worse for wear,
- mussed up,
- Wrackful,
- scraggiest,
- uninhabitable,
- bedraggled,
- darkish,
- scummier,
- out of date,
- down-at-heel,
- disarrayed,
- in rags,
- badly dressed,
- down-at-the-heel,
- threadbare,
- creaky,
- falling down,
- out of condition,
- schlocky,
- anile,
- decrepit.
- down-and-out,
- poor,
- scruffy,
- bankrupt,
- embarrassed,
- penurious,
- bereft,
- distressed,
- have-not,
- poverty-stricken,
- busted,
- hand-to-mouth,
- beggarly,
- impoverished,
- homeless,
- destitute,
- penniless,
- pauper.
- more frazzled,
- un finished,
- full holes,
- more fragmented,
- most fragmented,
- most rent,
- most frazzled,
- most shredded,
- in holes,
- un-even,
- un even,
- un-pressed,
- down the heel,
- un pressed,
- more unpressed,
- most patched,
- most unpressed,
- more shredded,
- more patched,
- scraggier,
- more rent,
- un-finished,
- most frayed,
- more frayed,
- down heel,
- dis-organized,
- dis organized,
- full of holes.
- un steadiest,
- un-steadiest,
- un-steadier,
- un-firmer,
- un safe,
- jerry built,
- un firmer,
- jerrybuilt,
- un-safer,
- un steadier,
- un steady,
- un-safest,
- unfirm,
- unfirmest,
- un-firmest,
- un firm,
- un safest,
- un safer,
- un firmest,
- un-safe,
- un-firm,
- unfirmer.
- in-secure,
- in securer,
- in-securer,
- most rachitic,
- in-securest,
- in securest,
- more rachitic,
- pre carious,
- pre-carious,
- in secure.
- spoilt,
- more shot,
- more spoilt,
- un did,
- more fordone,
- most undid,
- most spoilt,
- most fordone,
- un-did,
- most shot,
- more undid,
- un done.
- more uncared for,
- most down at the heel,
- in bad way,
- dog eared,
- more beatup,
- most dog-eared,
- out condition,
- more dog-eared,
- most dog eared,
- under weather,
- more beat up,
- dogeared,
- most beatup,
- more beat-up,
- more dog eared,
- most uncared-for,
- un tended,
- un healthy,
- more untended,
- more uncared-for,
- most beat up,
- most untended,
- most uncared for,
- more dogeared,
- more down at the heel,
- most uncaredfor,
- un-healthiest,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- un healthier,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- more uncaredfor,
- un-healthy,
- un-tended,
- uncaredfor,
- most dogeared,
- un healthiest,
- most beat-up,
- beatup.
- dis-reputable,
- more deteriorating,
- more disfigured,
- povertystricken,
- more degenerated,
- gone seed,
- most degenerated,
- dis-figured,
- most deteriorating,
- de generated,
- de-generated,
- most disfigured,
- poverty stricken,
- dis figured,
- dis reputable.
- junky,
- dis honorable,
- dis-honorable,
- junkier,
- in glorious,
- not up to snuff,
- dis-graceful,
- not to snuff,
- junkiest,
- more unrespectable,
- un-respectable,
- dis graceful,
- most unrespectable,
- dis creditable,
- un respectable,
- not up snuff,
- in-glorious,
- not snuff,
- dis-creditable.
- more down-at-heel,
- un becoming,
- un stylish,
- un-suitable,
- un-becoming,
- in-elegant,
- more down at heel,
- most down-at-heel,
- un-stylish,
- in elegant,
- un suitable,
- most down at heel,
- most unstylish,
- more unstylish.
- more impoverishing,
- most crippling,
- most depleting,
- un fortunate,
- most shattering,
- more crippling,
- more depleting,
- more wrackful,
- most wrackful,
- more annihilative,
- most impoverishing,
- un-fortunate,
- most annihilative,
- more shattering.
- most rumpled,
- unneatest,
- un improved,
- un neatest,
- dis-arrayed,
- dis arranged,
- unneater,
- most disarranged,
- un neater,
- un-kempt,
- un-fastidious,
- more rumpled,
- un neat,
- un kemptest,
- un-neater,
- un-kempter,
- un-neat,
- un-neatest,
- un polished,
- more unfastidious,
- un kempter,
- most unfastidious,
- un kempt,
- un-improved,
- un-kemptest,
- dis-arranged,
- more disarrayed,
- more disarranged,
- dis arrayed,
- un fastidious,
- most disarrayed.
n.
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- aging,
- aged,
- ancestor,
- antiquated,
- ancient,
- ageing,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- antiquity,
- age-old.
- tatterdemalion,
- informal,
- slatternly,
- burton,
- clapped out,
- ablative,
- well thumbed,
- Mashed,
- blasted,
- decomposable,
- see,
- last,
- biodegradable,
- blowzy,
- wrack,
- tottery,
- fusty,
- impaired,
- rusty,
- wobbly,
- disintegrative,
- mangle,
- mussy,
- disintegrable,
- spout,
- condemned,
- Crumbling,
- negligent,
- wrecked,
- corrosive,
- ravaged,
- spindly,
- dusty,
- smashed-up,
- disjunctive,
- well worn,
- messy,
- repair,
- knackered,
- careless,
- loose,
- weather-beaten,
- ruinous,
- damaged,
- worm-eaten,
- shopworn,
- shattered,
- frumpy,
- devastated,
- drabbletailed,
- rocky,
- stricken,
- neglected,
- raddled,
- in ruins,
- tottering,
- squalid,
- tumbledown,
- unusable,
- solvent,
- sordid,
- worse,
- spidery,
- resolvent,
- Disintegrating,
- broken-down,
- ruin,
- shred,
- tattered,
- Teetering,
- beat up,
- marred,
- teetery,
- worn,
- dereliction,
- erosive,
- unsteady,
- separative,
- Mildewed,
- degradable,
- scuff,
- draggletailed,
- broken,
- timeworn,
- frowzy,
- weather,
- rough,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- decayed,
- disrepair,
- sad,
- seedy,
- slovenly,
- Disintegrated,
- buggered,
- tatters,
- unsound,
- way,
- lumpen,
- musty,
- shaky,
- shop-soiled,
- frumpish,
- unsightly,
- wear and tear,
- whack,
- moss-grown,
- kaput,
- faded,
- moldy,
- shoddy,
- manky,
- rickety,
- raggedy,
- brick,
- dickensian,
- battered,
- moldering,
- chintzy,
- groggy,
- disruptive,
- Decaying,
- grubby,
- stale,
- time-scarred,
- slummy,
- sloppy,
- injured,
- fleabitten,
- impair,
- Ricketish,
- beaten up,
- sluttish,
- tumble-down,
- doddering,
- skid,
- hors de combat,
- draggled,
- decomposing,
- worsen,
- poky,
- destroyed,
- action,
- dismantled,
- untidy,
- mangy.
v.
• deteriorated (verb)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- advanced,
- interpret,
- obsolescent,
- doll,
- disordered,
- unused,
- delicate,
- stereotyped,
- hurt,
- split,
- destroy,
- shaft,
- wear out,
- disreputable,
- dying,
- fallacious,
- falling to pieces,
- dirty,
- lay bare,
- deserted,
- old man,
- collapse,
- precarious,
- weak,
- withering,
- descend,
- resolve,
- faulty,
- dissolve,
- cock,
- patchy,
- squander,
- improve,
- solve,
- reduced,
- harmed,
- infirm,
- animal,
- disused,
- creature,
- far,
- injure,
- makeshift,
- gimcrack,
- decipher,
- trite,
- expend,
- scratched,
- obsolete,
- forsaken,
- wasted,
- wobbling,
- bad,
- go,
- creaking,
- disfigure,
- unsubstantial,
- crumble,
- feeble,
- shaken,
- archaic,
- exhausted,
- instrument,
- fauna,
- tired,
- time-worn,
- elderly person,
- insubstantial,
- unstable,
- alight,
- overused,
- consume,
- mentally ill,
- slight,
- unfit,
- scarred,
- secondhand,
- Marionette,
- cascade down,
- all the worse for wear,
- insecure,
- tool,
- beyond help,
- condescend,
- cast aside,
- beyond repair,
- dated,
- wight,
- spoiling,
- well-worn,
- Unsecure,
- weathered,
- despoiled,
- prick,
- down-at-the-heels,
- stereotypic,
- pecker,
- declining,
- puppet,
- falling apart,
- imperfect,
- disorderly,
- frail,
- failing,
- woebegone,
- defective,
- disintegrate,
- maim,
- breakable,
- Sprung,
- leg,
- worn to rags,
- break,
- beast,
- frayed,
- abandoned,
- settle,
- jerry-built,
- gone to pot,
- hackneyed,
- flimsy,
- bruised,
- analyze,
- bombed-out,
- devastate,
- brute,
- pawn,
- demolished,
- frangible,
- spend,
- tumble,
- passe,
- altered,
- demolish,
- Tabid.
How to use "Dilapidated" in context?
Across the United States, there are neighborhoods that are described as "dilapidated." This is often due to a lack of care and maintenance by local and state governments. This can lead to a unsafe environment and dangerous living conditions. Despite this, many people still live in these areas because they are economically deprived and don't have other options.
In some cases, local governments are unable or unwilling to invest in these neighborhoods. This leaves the residents with very little hope for a better future. This is compounded by the fact that the residents are often isolated from major economic and social opportunities. Many of these areas are located in poor and minority neighborhoods.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
decrepit, ramshackle, run-down.
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Independent
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Adjective
ancient, degraded, shattered, worn, Deteriorated.
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