English words for 'in deplorable condition'
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adj
- in deplorable condition
- worn and broken down by hard use
- failing in what duty requires
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
adj
- In poor condition.
- [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- In poor health; ill.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- affected with madness or insanity
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
noun
verb
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
- (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
- (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
- a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
verb
- deteriorate
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
adj
- In poor condition or repair.
- Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
- (originally British) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
- (Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
- Infested with rats.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- of or characteristic of rats
- dirty and infested with rats
noun
adj
- Ravaged or deteriorated.
- (slang) Very drunk or stoned.
- (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).
- Emaciated and haggard.
- Not profitably used.
- (slang) Exhausted.
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- not used to good advantage
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
verb
noun
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
adj
- not in good condition; damaged or decayed
- containing or based on a fallacy
- of e.g. advice
- suffering from severe mental illness
- not sound financially
- physically unsound or diseased
- (especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
- (UK, especially of people) Not good, unreliable.
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
adj
- Decrepit, weakened.
- (nautical, of a ship) Drooping at each end because of a damaged spine.
- Having a broken back.
- (military) Of a war or warfare: continuing after the main force has been destroyed or significantly weakened, for example after a devastating nuclear strike.
- (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
- having the spine damaged
- (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth
adj
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
noun
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
adv
verb
adj
- In a state of decay.
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- Bad or terrible.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
- very bad
adv
prep_phrase
adj
- in an unpalatable state
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
adv
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
verb
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
adj
- in an unpalatable state
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
noun
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
verb
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
noun
- The state of being rotten.
- The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
- Rotten material.
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
adv
adj
- Low in rank or social importance.
- Not high; not elevated in place; low.
- Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
- Not lofty or sublime; humble.
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- inferior in rank or status
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- low or inferior in station or quality
noun
verb
verb
- become rotten
- mix up or confuse
- To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
- (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
- To make or become addled; to muddle or confuse.
- (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
adj
noun
adj
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
noun
adj
- Worn down by overuse; decrepit.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.
- arthritic or rheumatic.
- Tending to creak.
- worn and broken down by hard use
- of or pertaining to arthritis
- having a rasping or grating sound
verb
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
noun
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- (programming) Array decay.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
adj
noun
noun
noun
- The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
- (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
- (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
- a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
noun
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
adv
verb
noun
- The state of being rotten.
- The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
- Rotten material.
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
noun
verb
noun
verb
- deteriorate
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
verb
- become rotten
- mix up or confuse
- To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
- (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
- To make or become addled; to muddle or confuse.
- (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
noun
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- (programming) Array decay.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
adv
adj
- Low in rank or social importance.
- Not high; not elevated in place; low.
- Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
- Not lofty or sublime; humble.
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- inferior in rank or status
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- low or inferior in station or quality
adj
- in deplorable condition
- worn and broken down by hard use
- failing in what duty requires
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
adj
- In poor condition.
- [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- In poor health; ill.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- affected with madness or insanity
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
noun
verb
adj
- In poor condition or repair.
- Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
- (originally British) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
- (Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
- Infested with rats.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- of or characteristic of rats
- dirty and infested with rats
noun
adj
- Ravaged or deteriorated.
- (slang) Very drunk or stoned.
- (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).
- Emaciated and haggard.
- Not profitably used.
- (slang) Exhausted.
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- not used to good advantage
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
verb
adj
- not in good condition; damaged or decayed
- containing or based on a fallacy
- of e.g. advice
- suffering from severe mental illness
- not sound financially
- physically unsound or diseased
- (especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
- (UK, especially of people) Not good, unreliable.
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
adj
- Decrepit, weakened.
- (nautical, of a ship) Drooping at each end because of a damaged spine.
- Having a broken back.
- (military) Of a war or warfare: continuing after the main force has been destroyed or significantly weakened, for example after a devastating nuclear strike.
- (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
- having the spine damaged
- (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth
adj
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
adj
- In a state of decay.
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- Bad or terrible.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
- very bad
adv
adj
- in an unpalatable state
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
adv
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
verb
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
adj
- in an unpalatable state
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
noun
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
verb
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
adj
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
adj
- Worn down by overuse; decrepit.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.
- arthritic or rheumatic.
- Tending to creak.
- worn and broken down by hard use
- of or pertaining to arthritis
- having a rasping or grating sound