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Synonyms & Antonyms of dilapidated
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- a dilapidated car that had seen better days
Synonyms for dilapidated
- beat-up,
- bombed-out,
- dog-eared,
- down-at-the-heels
- (or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels),
- dumpy,
- grungy,
- mangy,
- mean,
- miserable,
- moth-eaten,
- neglected,
- ratty,
- run-down,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- sleazy,
- tacky,
- tatterdemalion,
- tatty,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tumbledown
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of dilapidated (Entry 2 of 2)
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for dilapidated
- atrophied,
- crumbled,
- decayed,
- declined,
- degenerated,
- descended,
- deteriorated,
- devolved,
- ebbed,
- regressed,
- retrograded,
- rotted,
- sank
- (or sunk),
- worsened
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The first known use of dilapidated was in 1565
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