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.
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Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley.
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Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
decrepit
adj 1: 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,
flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
2: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
"her body looked sapless" [syn: debile, feeble, infirm,
sapless, weak, weakly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "decrepit":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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