Decrepit

Definitions: Decrepit

Decrepit

Adjective

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".

2. Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless".

Date "decrepit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Term applied to a wine, which has declined in quality through too much age or oxydation. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Decrepit Unable to make a noise. It refers rather to the mute voice and silent footstep of old age than to its broken strength. (Latin, de-crepo.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Decrepit

Synonyms: creaky (adj), feeble (adj), flea-bitten (adj), infirm (adj), run-down (adj), sapless (adj), weak (adj), weakly (adj), woebegone (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: feeblest (medicine).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Age	Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.
Deterioration	Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless).
Disease	Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).
Weakness	Broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Decrepit

English words defined with "decrepit": creaky ♦ flea-bitten ♦ Witherling, woebegone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "decrepit": Beggar ♦ Marriage ♦ Shaking Hands. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Decrepit" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (decrepit, palsied, senile).

Domain	Usage
Clever	Healthy appearing, decrepit, 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Batiment Neuf, the most cracked and decrepit affair in the world, was the weak point of the prison.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Nigeria	NITEL's privatization is now slated to begin before the end of 2001. Significantly, NITEL management has been pressured to forgo rehabilitation and expansion of its decrepit infrastructure, a scheme which had been highly criticized by the world bank and other donor countries. (references)
Human Rights	Pakistan	Such unsanitary conditions are common in small, poorly ventilated, and decrepit colonial-era prisons, which mainly are classified as class "C." Inadequate food, often consisting of only a few pieces of bread, leads to chronic malnutrition for those unable to supplement their diet with help from family or friends. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Decrepit" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decrepit" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	98	33,072

Expressions using "decrepit": become decrepit ♦ grow decrepit. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "decrepit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aftands (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), aftandig (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Albanian		i vjetruar (antiquated, back number, dated, dilapidated, disreputable, fusty, moldy, moth-eaten, mouldy, napless, obsolete, old hat, out of date, outdated, outworn, overage, rusty, seasoned, second hand, superannuated, threadbare, time worn, worm-eaten), i thyer (aged, bent, broken, cloven, exhausted, montane, old, rough, rugged, split, uneven), i rrënuar (desolate, dilapidated, disreputable, effete, goner, impoverished, lost, ramshackle, tumble down, tumbledown, up the spout), i plakur, i grisur (dilapidated, infirm, lacerate, ramshackle, rickety, threadbare). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقعد بسبب الشيخوخة, ‏متداع للسقوط (ramshackle, shaky), ‏عاجز (disabled, effete, feckless, helpless, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inert, infirm, invalid, paralysed, paralyzed, poor, powerless, unable), ‏بال (decomposed, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, stale, threadbare, tired, trite, well worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		разнебитен (beaten up, broken down, crank, cranky, crazy, dilapidated, raddle, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, unstrung), немощен (bedridden, doddered, faint, frail, infirm, shaky, unable). (various references)

Chinese		剥落 (flake, Flaking). (various references)

Czech		zchátralý (derelict, dilapidated, moth-eaten, ramshackle), vetchý (delicate, old), slabý (bad, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary), sešlý (squalid), na spadnutí (jerry built, ramshackle, tumble down). (various references)

Danish		død (dead, death, exitus, late, worn out), svagelig (feeble, infirm, weak). (various references)

Dutch		gammel (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), bouwvallig (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), aftands (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Esperanto		kaduka (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Faeroese		skirvisligur (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), ússaligur (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Farsi		سالخورده وفرتوت , ضعیف وناتوان , خیلی پیر. (various references)

Finnish		ylikehittynyt (worn out), väsynyt (exhausted, fatigued, languid, tired, tired out, weary, worn out), raihnas (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), passé (worn out), elinkaarensa huipun ohittanut (worn out). (various references)

French		délabré (decayed), caduc (decayed, deciduous). (various references)

Frisian		útwikelse (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), útlibbe (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

German		altersschwach (decrepitly, old and infirm, ramshackle, senile), baufällig (decayed, derelict, dilapidated, haywire, in a state of disrepair, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, tumble down, tumbledown). (various references)

Greek		σαραβαλιασμένοσ (decrepitude, dilapidated, wrecked), ξεθυμασμένος (worn out), υπέργηροσ, εξαντλημένος (exhausted, exhausted 1, exhausted 2, run-down, spent, weary, worn out), ετοιμόρροποσ (crumbly, derelict, floppy, groggy, ramshackle, tottery, tumble down). (various references)

Hungarian		elaggott (crippled with age), rokkant (cripple, crippled, disabled, invalid). (various references)

Indonesian		tua renta, tua, jompo. (various references)

Italian		decrepito (decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, worn out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		老い耄れる (to become decrepit, to become senile), 老いぼれる (to become decrepit, to become senile), 焼きが回る (to be in one's dotage, to become decrepit, to become dull, to lose one's astuteness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おいぼれる (to become decrepit, to become senile), やきがまわる (to be in one's dotage, to become decrepit, to become dull, to lose one's astuteness). (various references)

Korean		낡아� 진. (various references)

Manx		shirgit (atrophied, contracted, dried up, gaunt, jerked, mummified, shrivelled, shrunken, wilted, withered, wizened), moal (backward, belated, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), anheiltagh (cripple, crippling, feeble person, helpless). (various references)

Norwegian		avfeldig. (various references)

Pig Latin		ecrepitday

Portuguese		decrépito (crazy, decayed, dilapidated, Gage, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, worn out). (various references)

Romanian		decrepit (palsied, senile), zaharisit (candied, sugared), vechi (ancient, antique, back, grey headed, Hoar, inveterate, old, quondam, stale, superannuated, time worn, used), uzat (cast off, effete, jaded, mangy, napless, obsolete, outworn, peeled, seedy, shabby, spent, used, well worn, worn out), senil (aged, doting, senile), ramolit (dodderer, doting, soft-witted), rablagit (deteriorated, rattletrap, soft-witted), ponosit (cast off, seedy, shabby), boşorog (dodderer, doddery), îmbãtrânit. (various references)

Russian		дряхлый (ramshackle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oslabljen (atonic, enervate, relieved), oronuo (feeble, flimsy, lapsed, ramshackle). (various references)

Spanish		decrépito (decayed, dilapidated, feeble, infirm, lapsed, rickety, weak, worn out). (various references)

Swedish		skröplig (frail, infirm), orkeslös (infirm). (various references)

Turkish		zayıf düşmüş (peaked, peaky), eskimiş (dated, detrited, effete, moss-grown, obsolescent, old, out, outworn, rusty, shiny, stale, superannuated, timeworn, well worn, worm-eaten, worn, worn out), eli ayağı tutmaz, bir ayağı çukurda (at death's door, on one's last legs, on the brink of the grave, one foot in the grave), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, crooked, decadent, depressed, down, down and out, hollow, shrunk, shrunken). (various references)

Ukranian		старезний (advanced, age-old, ancient, antiquated, antique, prehistoric, prehistorical, senile, winterly, wintry), старий (advanced, aged, age-old, ancient, auld, back, dilapidated, grey headed, hoary, moth-eaten, old, old-aged, olden, ole, superannuated, used), ветхий (crazy, dilapidated), одряхлілий (dotard), зношений (bare, moth-eaten, old, ole, outworn, overworn, played out, shot, worn), застарілий (antiquated, antique, archaic, chronic, demoded, fossil, fusty, inveterate, moldy, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, ole, out of date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over age, overworn, passe, played out, rusty, superannuated, time worn, worm-eaten). (various references)

Vietnamese		lụ khụ hư nát, hom hem (peaked, peaky), gi� yếu (senescent), đổ nát (dilapidated, ramshackle). (various references)

Welsh		musgrell (feeble), methedig (disabled, infirm), llegach (feeble, inform, weak). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	decrepiti, decrepitus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "decrepit": decrepitate, decrepitated, decrepitates, decrepitating, decrepitation, decrepitations, decrepitly, decrepitude, decrepitudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Decrepit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deceipt, decept, decrdpit, decrepid, decrept, decrepted, decropit, descrepit, Desserprit, ducreyi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "decrepit" (pronounced dukre"put)
3	-p u t	carpet, despot, puppet, snippet, tappet, Tippet, trumpet.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: depicter, precited.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: pierced, predict, preedit, receipt, recited, tierced.
	-2 letters: cerite, credit, creped, deceit, deicer, depict, dieter, direct, perdie, pieced, piecer, pierce, priced, recept, recipe, recite, redipt, reedit, retied, tierce, tiered, trepid, triced.
	-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, cited, citer, creed, creep, crepe, crept, cried, cripe, deice, deter, dicer, dript, edict, eider, erect, peter, piece, preed, price, pride, pried, recti, redip, retie, riced, riped, tepid, terce, tired, treed, trice, tried, tripe.
	-4 letters: cede, cedi, cepe, cere, cete, cire, cite, deep, deer, deet, dere, dice, diet, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, dree, drip, edit, eide, epic, etic, iced, ired, peed, peer, peri, pert, pice, pied, pier, pree, rede, reed, rete, rice, ride, ripe, rite, teed, tide, tied, tier, tire, tree, trip.
	-5 letters: cee, cep, dee, die, dip, dit, ere, ice, ire, pec, ped, pee, per, pet, pic, pie, pit, rec, red, ree, rei, rep, ret, rid, rip, ted, tee, tic, tie, tip.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: depicters, predicate, predicted, prenticed, receipted.
	+2 letters: crepitated, decrepitly, depreciate, disrespect, imprecated, pederastic, predicated, predicates, predictive, replicated.
	+3 letters: appreciated, apprenticed, copresident, decrepitate, decrepitude, deprecating, deprecation, depreciated, depreciates, depreciator, descriptive, disrespects, intercepted, interspaced, predacities, prediabetic, predicament, predicative, predictable, reduplicate, reinspected.
	+4 letters: computerised, computerized, copresidents, decipherment, decrepitated, decrepitates, decrepitudes, deprecations, depreciating, depreciation, depreciative, depreciators, depreciatory, deuteranopic, disrespected, helicoptered, hyperexcited, intercropped, introspected, precautioned, precertified, precipitated, prediabetics, predicaments, predictively, predilection, prevaricated, propaedeutic, reciprocated, reduplicated, reduplicates, reproductive, stepchildren, transpierced.
	+5 letters: contemporized, counterpoised, decipherments, decrepitating, decrepitation, deprecatingly, deprecatorily, depreciations, descriptively, disrespectful, disrespecting, dryopithecine, intercompared, interepidemic, interpandemic, periodicities, predicatively, predilections, prefabricated, presanctified, propaedeutics, recapitalized, recapitulated, redescription, reduplicative, reproductives, superinfected, unappreciated, unpredictable.
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