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Adjectives (9)
draggled
adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
battered, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound
adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
Fuzzynyms (68)
untidy
adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered
adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
wild, shock-headed, unkempt, tousled, uncombed, uncombable
adj. used of hair: "wild unkempt hair"
scraggly, unkempt
adj. lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"
rundown, run-down, creaky, woebegone, decrepit, flea-bitten
adj. 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"
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered
adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
old
adj. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
battered
adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"
bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
squalid, sordid, seedy, seamy, sleazy
adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
tacky, undried
adj. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish"
sluttish, blowsy, blowzy, frowsy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly
adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
adhesive
adj. tending to adhere
pasty, gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous
adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
Synonyms (66)
Augean
adj. extremely filthy from long neglect
befouled
adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy
adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
bespattered, spattered, splashed
adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"
buggy
adj. infested with bugs
dusty
adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
fecal, feculent, faecal
adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
foul, filthy, nasty
adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
flyblown, squalid, sordid
adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
lousy
adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
maggoty
adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
muddy, mucky
adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
scummy
adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
snotty, snot-nosed
adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"
travel-soiled, travel-stained
adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"
unwashed
adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"
bent, crumpled, dented
adj. of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"
rent, blasted, ripped, torn
adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
broken-backed
adj. having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse"
burned-out, burnt-out, burned out, burnt out
adj. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire: "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"; "a burned-out picture tube"
burst, ruptured
adj. suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"
corroded
adj. eaten away as by acid or oxidation
cracked, crackled, crazed
adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
marred, defaced
adj. having the surface damaged or disfigured
hurt, weakened
adj. damaged inanimate objects or their value
knocked out, knocked-out
adj. damaged; "the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny"
mangled, mutilated
adj. (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text"
peeling
adj. having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"
scraped, scratched
adj. having surface damage
storm-beaten
adj. damaged by storm
Antonyms (4)
clean
adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
tidy, neat, cleanly
adj. habitually clean; "cleanly in their persons and habitations"
bedraggled
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