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Synonyms for crappy

  • adjective
  • American English

Most common

cheesy shoddy sleazy tatty miserable sloppy

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Shitty — of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful

bad, lousy, poor, shoddy, cheesy, inferior, sleazy, rubbish informal AU NZ, bum, tatty, punk, tenth-rate, chintzy, wretched, trashy, scrubby, shitty vulgar slang, crummy slang, god-awful slang US, cruddy slang

2. Piss-poor — bad, sick, or depressed

rotten, miserable, sloppy, icky informal, stinking, stinky, odious, foul, dire, loathsome, malodorous, piss-poor vulgar slang

3. Poopy — covered in crap (faeces/feces)

poopy, shitstained

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.

    That is such a crappy car.

  2. adj. 2

    Bad, sick, or depressed.

    I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.

  3. adj. 3

    Covered in crap (faeces/feces).

    Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.

Related words

Word family
crappiness
Is a kind of
soiled cruddy dirty foul grotty

Example sentences

  • cheesy The movie that we watched today was very cheesy.
  • shoddy I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
  • sleazy Tom's a sleazy letch, and he gives Mary the creeps.
  • tatty Tom's still got his tatty childhood teddy somewhere in the attic.
  • miserable Tom is sitting on a park bench, looking miserable.
  • sloppy I know Tom is a fast worker, but he does sloppy work.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
crappyrising
cheesyrising
shoddysteady
sleazyrising
tattyrising
miserablerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bad1, bum1
4 letters
poor1, punk1, foul1, dire1, icky
5 letters
lousy2, poopy, tatty2
6 letters
shitty2, rotten2, cheesy2, sloppy2, trashy2, stinky2, shoddy2, sleazy2, odious3, crummy2, cruddy2
7 letters
rubbish2, scrubby2, chintzy2
8 letters
inferior4, wretched2, stinking2
9 letters
miserable4, loathsome2
10 letters
malodorous
11 letters
shitstained

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lousy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

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