'Decrepit' definitions:
Definition of 'decrepit'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
adjective
Definition of 'Decrepit'
From: GCIDE
- Decrepit \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. [1913 Webster]
- Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'decrepit'
From: Moby 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