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Synonyms for mangy

  • adjective

Most common

scruffy tattered decrepit unkempt scabby

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Scruffy — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit

scruffy, unkempt, decrepit, tattered, shabby, scurvy

Other

scabby

Antonyms

kempt

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

    We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

Related words

Word family
manginess
Other spellings
mangey

Example sentences

  • scruffy He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
  • tattered I see a tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
  • decrepit I think that his uncle is a decrepit old man.
  • unkempt He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
  • scabby The dog looked scabby and in poor state.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
mangyrising
scruffyrising
tatteredrising
decrepitrising
unkemptrising
scabbyrising

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

By length

6 letters
shabby2, scurvy, scabby
7 letters
scruffy2, unkempt2
8 letters
decrepit3, tattered2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shabby2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
galeux
Deutsch
räudig