Synonyms for decrepit
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Weak
weak, infirm, rickety, effete, frail, senile, enfeebled, tottering, feeble, flimsy, wasted, weakly, enervated, sapless, debile, debilitated, fragile, puny, weakened, languid
2. Broken-down
broken-down, run-down, derelict, creaky, shabby, worn, stale, flea-bitten, woebegone, downgone US, dilapidated, ramshackle, bedraggled
3. Superannuated
old, superannuated, aged, time-worn, venerable, elderly, antediluvian
Definitions
- adj. 1
Weakened or worn out from age or wear.
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Decrepit, gray, and hoary refer to the effects of age on the body exclusively; senile upon the mind also; as, a decrepit frame, senile garrulousness. One may be aged and neither decrepit nor senile.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- frail Don't embrace me in such a manner. I'm so frail!
- rickety Monday rolled into town on a rickety old bicycle.
- effete The critics dismissed the film as an effete imitation of earlier, bolder works.
- derelict The old mosque was derelict and rotting.
By length
- 3 letters
- old1
- 4 letters
- weak1, aged1, worn1, puny2
- 5 letters
- stale1, frail1, mangy2, anile
- 6 letters
- wasted2, shabby2, feeble2, weakly2, flimsy2, senile2, infirm2, creaky2, effete2, debile
- 7 letters
- elderly3, fragile2, rickety3, languid2, sapless
- 8 letters
- weakened2, crippled2, derelict3, withered2, downgone
- 9 letters
- venerable4, tottering3, enfeebled3, enervated, woebegone3
- 10 letters
- ramshackle3, bedraggled3
- 11 letters
- dilapidated5, debilitated5
- 12 letters
- deteriorated6, antediluvian
- 13 letters
- superannuated
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (puny2 = 2 syllables).