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Adjective
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Worse or not as good in quality or state
worse
inferior
poorer
shoddier
direr
dodgier
grottier
hackier
junkier
lousier
poor
poxier
ropier
sadder
sorrier
tawdrier
trashier
of inferior quality
of poorer quality
not as good as
not so good
not as good
not as favorable
not as nice
badder
cheaper
wretcheder
paltrier
crummier
miserabler
more ❯
“For such shabby workmanship as this, there is no excuse, when it may be so easily avoided.”
Adjective
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Comparative for ragged or tattered, especially of clothes
tattier
holier
raggedier
older
scruffier
seedier
meaner
mangier
grungier
dumpier
miserabler
rattier
tackier
scrubbier
sleazier
scuzzier
ancienter
more ragged
more frayed
more worn
more faded
more worn out
more moth-eaten
more dilapidated
more tumbledown
more threadbare
more tatterdemalion
more neglected
more timeworn
more beat-up
more dog-eared
more bombed-out
more decrepit
more decayed
more old-fashioned
more unkempt
more yellowed
more outmoded
more démodé
more outworn
“Here was a girl in a shabby dress, her hair braided in two untidy ropes, green eyes alive with the poetry.”
Adjective
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Comparative for scruffy or grubby in appearance
slovenlier
scruffier
untidier
daggier
sloppier
frowzier
messier
dirtier
dowdier
sleazier
slobbier
blowsier
frowsier
grubbier
rattier
scrubbier
mangier
drabber
raggedier
shaggier
blowzier
stodgier
grungier
plainer
frumpier
scraggier
homelier
tackier
scragglier
knottier
more unkempt
more bedraggled
more disheveledUS
more dishevelledUK
more tousled
more slobbish
more frumpish
more tired
more ❯
“There was an aura of displacement about him, I felt, and it wasn't because of his ragged clothes or the shabby appearance.”
Adjective
▲
Comparative for in poor condition through long use or lack of care
seedier
grungier
meaner
dumpier
miserabler
dingier
squalider
slummier
ricketier
sordider
wretcheder
crummier
grottier
scuzzier
older
shackier
scruffier
tattier
rattier
tackier
sleazier
scrubbier
mangier
shoddier
raggedier
grubbier
sorrier
skankier
seamier
unpleasanter
more ❯
“Miss Perrybright's School of Etiquette could be found in a shabby building at the far end of a rundown district of small shops.”
Adjective
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Comparative for of low social rank or status
humbler
commoner
lowlier
poorer
simpler
ignobler
lower
meaner
meagrerUK
meagererUS
rougher
severer
measlier
obscurer
vulgarer
wretcheder
beggarlier
miserabler
paltrier
pettier
pitifuller
punier
scrubbier
sordider
uncouther
unfitter
smaller
baser
less
lousier
more commonplace
more ordinary
more plebeian
more proletarian
more undistinguished
more insignificant
more modest
more underprivileged
more unimportant
more unrefined
more unremarkable
more inconsequential
more inglorious
more trivial
more unpretentious
more contemptible
more humdrum
more plebby
more lower-class
more working-class
more low-born
more ❯
“Rex Mottram, Julia Flyte's crude lover in Brideshead, is a newly rich and self-invented man from a shabby background, vulgar and ostentatious in his hospitality, suspected of crime and violence, and full of status anxiety.”
Adjective
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Comparative for behaving in a mean or unfair way
meaner
baser
nastier
lower
dirtier
ignobler
unworthier
hatefuller
scurvier
rottener
unpleasanter
unfairer
cheaper
crueler
sorrier
beastlier
shadier
unkinder
shoddier
scummier
beggarlier
viler
sordider
wretcheder
wickeder
badder
snider
paltrier
abjecter
disgustinger
more ❯
“It was a shabby way to treat a sister and a shabbier way to treat a brother.”
Adjective
▲
Comparative for dirty or unclean, especially disgustingly so
filthier
dirtier
uncleaner
grimier
fouler
muckier
grubbier
cruddier
muddier
dustier
grungier
smuttier
grottier
dingier
nastier
sordider
sootier
blacker
squalider
messier
slimier
scuzzier
scummier
skankier
smellier
yuckier
rottener
sleazier
smokier
mirier
sloppier
slovenlier
murkier
crummier
horrier
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Comparative for significantly below an amount or level that is adequate
meagrerUK
meagererUS
scantier
scanter
sparser
paltrier
scarcer
smaller
poorer
skimpier
measlier
slighter
slimmer
stingier
slenderer
sparer
lighter
less
shorter
weaker
miserabler
punier
meaner
flimsier
barer
barrener
subtler
merer
bittier
pettier
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Comparative for unimportant or insignificant in nature
paltrier
pettier
smaller
slighter
minuter
measlier
less
piddlier
tinier
lighter
foolisher
pitifuller
mingier
poxier
shallower
baser
beggarlier
cheaper
more inconsiderable
more insignificant
more negligible
more trivial
more trifling
more inconsequential
more unimportant
more minor
more piffling
more nugatory
more frivolous
more footling
more incidental
more picayune
more pimping
more irrelevant
more minuscule
more chicken
more insubstantial
more derisory
more casual
more secondary
more exiguous
more pathetic
more subordinate
more token
more contemptible
more junior
more unconsiderable
more inconsequent
more no-account
more nickel-and-dime
more small-bore
more penny-ante
Adjective
▲
Comparative for done or performed without method or care
sloppier
laxer
looser
messier
slacker
faultier
junkier
shoddier
clumsier
hastier
poorer
lazier
tardier
recklesser
slovenlier
untidier
blither
rasher
sketchier
cooler
scrappier
easier
quicker
unwiser
blinder
deafer
wilder
shallower
briefer
scattier
more slipshod
more careless
more offhand
more slapdash
more unorganizedUS
more unsystematic
more heedless
more neglectful
more negligent
more thoughtless
more casual
more disorganisedUK
more disorganizedUS
more imperfect
more inaccurate
more inexact
more threadbare
more unmeticulous
more unthorough
more lackadaisical
more unworkmanlike
more slap-happy
more all over the place
more ❯
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