Decrepit
/dɪˈkɹɛp.ɪt/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Weakened or worn out from age or wear.
"Sorrow is subdued by strong necessity; there is no cause why life should be lengthened for our love; and we feel that the worn and the decrepit do but go down into that grave which had received youth, health, beauty,—all that made existence precious—long before."
Adjective
- 1 lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality wordnet
- 2 worn and broken down by hard use wordnet
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More examples"Holly Black was born in a decrepit Victorian house in New Jersey."
Etymology
From Middle English decrepyt (ante 1439), from Middle French décrépit, from Latin dēcrepitus (“very old”), from crepō (“to creak”).