Thesaurus:ramshackle

Thesaurus

ramshackle

English

Adjective

Sense: in disrepair or disorder; not properly maintained

Detail: Usually of a building, vehicle or other physical object.

Synonyms

• beat
• beat up
• beaten up
• bedraggled
• broken-down
• crumbling
• derelict
• dilapidated
• draggled
• neglected
• ramshackle
• ruinous
• rundown
• seedy
• tatterdemalion
• timeworn
• tumbledown

Antonyms

• intact    [⇒ thesaurus]
• in good repair
• like new
• rustless
• spick-and-span
• thrifty
• unbroken
• undamaged
• unimpaired
• untainted
• well-kept
• well-preserved

Hyponyms

• rickety    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• abandoned    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cheerless    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dangerous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deteriorated    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• broken    [⇒ thesaurus]
• jagged
• tattered

Further reading

• “665. danger” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “ramshackle” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.