'Ramshackle' definitions:
Definition of 'ramshackle'
From: WordNet
adjective
In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken- down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
Definition of 'Ramshackle'
From: GCIDE
- Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\ (r[a^]m"sh[a^]k*k'l), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. [1913 Webster]
- There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ramshackle'
From: GCIDE
- Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, v. t. To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ramshackle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- battered,
- beat-up,
- beaten up,
- broken-down,
- crumbling,
- decrepit,
- derelict,
- dilapidated,
- doddering,
- flimsy,
- groggy,
- in disrepair,
- in ruins,
- insubstantial,
- jerry-built,
- neglected,
- ricketish,
- rickety,
- rocky,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run-down,
- shaky,
- slummy,
- spidery,
- spindly,
- teetering,
- teetery,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- tumbledown,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- wobbly