Synonyms for run-down

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ruhn-doun

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌnˈdaʊn

Top 10 synonyms for run-down

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Définition of run-down

Origin : 1866, of persons, with reference to health, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + down (adv.). From 1896 of places; 1894 of clocks. Earliest sense is "oppressed" (1680s).

adj shabby, in bad shape

Example sentences :

You've got no business in a run-down place like this— you with your fine clothes and your fine airs.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it.
Extract from : « Starman's Quest » by Robert Silverberg

We are compelled to make our living and hers out of this run-down farm.
Extract from : « Dorothy at Skyrie » by Evelyn Raymond

The run-down farm was a hopeless sideline that supported the family.
Extract from : « God's Green Country » by Ethel M. Chapman

Her trouble is a run-down, but the serious complication is her lungs.
Extract from : « James Gilmour of Mongolia » by James Gilmour

Though in your run-down condition you ought to have at least six.
Extract from : « The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass » by Allen Chapman

I was glad she wasn't no measly, little, old-fashioned, run-down concern.
Extract from : « Danny's Own Story » by Don Marquis

Withal, he had the shabby, run-down appearance as of a man in hard lines financially.
Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter

But any one who knows about farm work, realizes that this view of a run-down, neglected old place means a long struggle.
Extract from : « The American Country Girl » by Martha Foote Crow

Thus had it needed Portox' help, a hundred Earth-Tarthian years before, when run-down entropy threatened its very existence.
Extract from : « Quest of the Golden Ape » by Ivar Jorgensen

Antonyms for run-down

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