Decrepit
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English
Adjective
Decrepit (comparative more Decrepit, superlative most Decrepit)
- Weakened or worn out from age or wear
Derived terms
Adverbs for Decrepit
helplessly; prematurely; dangerously; pitiably; hopelessly; pathetically; terribly; deplorably; heartbreakingly; hoarily; dod-deringly; feebly; totteringly; crazily; incurably; weakly; lamentably; pitifully.
Thesaurus
aged, ancient, anile, antiquated, battered, beat-up, beaten 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
Alternative forms
- decrepid (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin decrepitus broken down, from crepare to creak.
