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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. worn and broken down by hard use;
- Example: "a creaky shack"
- Example: "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
- Example: "a flea-bitten sofa"
- Example: "a run-down neighborhood"
- Example: "a woebegone old shack"
[syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]

2. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality;
- Example: "a feeble old woman"
- Example: "her body looked sapless"
[syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley. [1913 Webster] Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone] 2: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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