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down at the heel

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Main Entry: ragged
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: worn-out; in shreds

Synonyms:

badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, contemptible, crude, desultory, dilapidated, dingy, disorganized, down at the heel, fragmented, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in holes, in rags, in tatters, irregular, jagged, mean, moth-eaten, notched, patched, poor, poorly made, rent, rough, rugged, scraggy, seedy, serrated, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, shredded, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, uneven, unfinished, unkempt, unpressed, worse for wear

Antonyms:

even, kempt, new, smooth
Main Entry: run-down
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shabby, in bad shape

Synonyms:

abandoned, beat-up, below par, broken-down, crumbling, debilitated, decrepit, derelict, deserted, desolate, dilapidated, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-the-heel, drained, enervated, exhausted, fatigued, forsaken, frowzy, in a bad way, neglected, old, out of condition, peaked, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, seedy, tacky, tattered, tired, tumble-down, uncared-for, under the weather, unhealthy, untended, used up, weak, weary, worn-out

Antonyms:

fresh, good, healthy, ok
Main Entry: seedy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: run-down, dilapidated

Synonyms:

ailing, beat up, bedraggled, crummy, decaying, decrepit, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-the-heel, drooping, droopy, faded, flagging, frowzy, gone to seed, grubby, in a bad way, mangy, messy, neglected, old, overgrown, poor, poorly, ragged, ratty, sagging, scruffy, shabby, sickly, sleazy*, slovenly, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, torn, unkempt, untidy, unwell, used up, wilted, wilting, worn

Antonyms:

luxurious, nice, posh
Main Entry: slovenly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dirty, disordered

Synonyms:

bedraggled, botched, careless, dingy, disheveled, disorderly, dowdy, down-at-the-heel, frowzy, frumpy, grody, grubby, grungy, heedless, icky, loose, messed up, messy, mussy, negligent, pigpen, raunchy, seedy, slack, slapdash, sleazy*, slipshod, sloppy, tacky, topsy-turvy, unfastidious, unkempt, unthorough, untidy

Antonyms:

clean, ordered, organized
Main Entry: threadbare
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: worn, frayed

Synonyms:

beat up, damaged, dilapidated, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-the-heel, faded, frowzy, impaired, injured, old, ragged, ratty, run-down, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shopworn, tacky, tattered, timeworn, used, used-up, worn-out, worse for wear

Antonyms:

fresh, new, unused
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