Tumble-down \Tum"ble-down`\, a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
[Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tumble-down
adj : in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
ramshackle, tatterdemalion, unsound]
WordNet (r) 2.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "tumbledown":
battered, beat-up, beaten up, broken-down, collapsing, crumbling,
deciduous, declining, declivitous, decrepit, decurrent, derelict,
descendant, descending, dilapidated, disintegrating, doddering,
down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill,
downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, falling, groggy,
in ruins, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting,
plunging, ramshackle, ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous,
run-down, sagging, setting, shaky, sinking, slummy, spidery,
spindly, submerging, subsiding, teetering, teetery, tottering,
tottery, unsteady, wobbly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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