Thesaurus:deteriorated
English
Adjective
Sense: in a state of impaired quality or value
Synonyms
- clapped out (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang)
- damaged
- defective
- deteriorated
- dilapidated
- effete (obsolete)
- faulty
- munted (Australia, New Zealand, slang)
- outworn
- passé
- raddled
- ragged
- ravaged
- rinky-dink (chiefly US, informal)
- shabby
- unimproved
- wasted
- weakened
- wrecked
- wrecksome
- worn
- worn-out
- worsened
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- broken [⇒ thesaurus]
- contaminated [⇒ thesaurus]
- decayed [⇒ thesaurus]
- decrepit
- depleted [⇒ thesaurus]
- discolored [⇒ thesaurus]
- elderly [⇒ thesaurus]
- mossgrown
- out of order [⇒ thesaurus]
- ramshackle [⇒ thesaurus]
- roadworn
- timeworn
- wayworn
- withered
- wounded [⇒ thesaurus]
- worse for wear (idiomatic)
- wrinkled [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “659. deterioration” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “deteriorated” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.