Shabby

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out: shabby furniture.
  • adj. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy: a shabby little park.
  • adj. Wearing threadbare clothing.
  • adj. Despicable; mean: a shabby trick.
  • adj. Not generous or just; unfair: shabby treatment.
  • adj. Of mediocre or substandard quality: a shabby performance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
  • adj. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  • adj. Mean; paltry; despicable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
  • adj. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  • adj. Mean; paltry; despicable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Scabby; mangy.
  • Mean; base; scurvy.
  • Of mean appearance; noting clothes and other things which are much worn, or evidence poverty or decay, or persons wearing such clothes; seedy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing signs of wear and tear
  • adj. mean and unworthy and despicable
  • Equivalent
    Cross Reference
    mean   
    Variant
    shabbiest    shabbier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    poor    mean    ragged    paltry    despicable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abbey    Abbie    Abby    Abie    Gabby    Gaby    abbe    abbey    cabbie    cabby   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dirty    dingy    tattered    dilapidated    ugly    neat    expensive    squalid    miserable    thin