About The Word Decrepit
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Decrepit
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What's The Definition Of Decrepit?
[adj] lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
[adj] worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" Synonyms | Synonyms for Decrepit: creaky | feeble | flea-bitten | frail | infirm | run-down | sapless | weak | weakly | woebegone | worn Related Terms | Find terms related to Decrepit: aged | ancient | anile | antiquated | battered | beaten up | beat-up | bedraggled | broken-down | cast-off | childish | childlike | crabbed | creaking | creaky | crippled | crumbling | damaged | debilitated | decayed | decaying | derelict | deteriorated | dilapidated | disabled | disintegrating | doddered | doddering | doddery | doited | doting | down-at-heel | elderly | enervated | enfeebled | feeble | flimsy | fossilized | fragile | frail | gaga | gerontal | gerontic | haggard | impaired | in ruins | incapacitated | infirm | injured | insubstantial | marred | mossbacked | moth-eaten | mummylike | old | out of shape | palsied | papery-skinned | poor | poorish | quavering | ragged | ramshackle | ravaged with age | rickety | rotten | rotten at | ruined | ruinous | run to seed | run-down | rusty | seedy | senescent | senile | shabby | shaking | shaky | shriveled | slipshod | sloppy | slummy | spoiled | stricken in years | superannuated | tacky | threadbare | timeworn | tired | tottering | tottery | tumbledown | unfirm | unfit | unkempt | unsolid | unsound | unstable | unsturdy | unsubstantial | used | wasted | weak | weakened | weakly | withered | wizened | worn | worn out See Also | Decrepit In Webster's Dictionary \De*crep"it\, a. [L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised
out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about
quietly; de- + crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F.
d['e]cr['e]pit. See {Crepitate}.]
Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities
of old age; feeble; worn out. ``Beggary or decrepit age.''
--Milton.
Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley.
Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid.
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