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| Main Entry: | rusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corroded |
| Synonyms: | decayed, oxidized, rust-covered, rusted |
| Main Entry: | rusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of practice; inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | deficient, impaired, neglected, sluggish, soft, stale, unqualified, weak, not what it was, unpracticed |
| Antonyms: | experienced, practiced, talented |
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| Main Entry: | aged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, elderly, gray, moth-eaten*, passé*, rusty*, senior citizen, shot*, timeworn, venerable, worn, age-old, been around, creaky, getting on, oldie, over the hill, senescent, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | new, unripe, young, youthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ancient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old, often very old |
| Synonyms: | aged, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, early, elderly, fossil*, hoary, moth-eaten*, obsolete, old-fashioned, older, out-of-date, outmoded, primal, primeval, primordial, relic, remote, rusty, superannuated, timeworn, venerable, age-old, back number, been around, creaky, few miles on, lot of mileage, old goat, oldie, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | modern, new, young |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enervated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, worn out |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, deteriorated, done in, fatigued, feeble, incapacitated, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, limp, listless, paralyzed, prostrate, run-down, rusty, soft, spent, spiritless, tired, weak, weakened, devitalized, enfeebled, gone to seed, languorous, on the ropes, out of condition, out of gas, out of shape, prostrated, sapped, undermined, unnerved, vitiated, washed out |
| Antonyms: | active, animated, enthusiastic, lively, activated, energized, invigorated, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | flabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
| Synonyms: | drooping, enervated, flaccid, floppy*, hanging, lax, limp, loose, pendulous, rusty, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, unfit, yielding, flexuous, gone to seed, irresilient, out of condition, out of shape, sagging, toneless |
| Antonyms: | firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harsh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, crude (to the senses) |
| Synonyms: | acrid, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jarring, noisy, off-key*, rasping, raucous, rigid, rugged, rusty, severe, sharp, sour, strident, uneven, unrelenting, asperous, caterwauling, creaking, croaking, jangling, not smooth, out-of-key, out-of-tune, screeching, stridulous, tuneless, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | easy, gentle, mild, peaceful, pleasing, smooth, soft |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancient |
| Synonyms: | aged, antiquated, antique, elderly, old, old-fashioned, older, out-of-date, relic, rusty, timeworn, venerable, age-old, lot of mileage, oldie, very old |
| Main Entry: | idle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not used; out of action |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, asleep, barren, dead, deserted, down, dusty, empty, inactive, inert, jobless, motionless, out of work*, passive, quiet, redundant, resting, rusty, sleepy, stationary, still, uncultivated, unemployed, unoccupied, untouched, unused, vacant, void, waste, closed down, gathering dust, laid-off, leisured, mothballed, on the bench, on the shelf, out of operation, workless |
| Notes: | idle means not in action or at work; idyll means a simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life - or a lighthearted carefree episode or experience; idyllic means excellent and delightful in all respects |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, employed, productive, used, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | old |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obsolete, outdated |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, crumbling, dated, decayed, done, early, erstwhile, former, hackneyed*, immemorial, late, moth-eaten*, old-fashioned, old-time, once, onetime, original, out-of-date, outmoded, passé, past, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, quondam, relic, remote, rusty, sometime, stale, superannuated, traditional, unfashionable, unoriginal, venerable, worn-out, age-old, cast-off, demode, of old, of yore, olden, oldfangled, time-worn |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, fresh, late, modern, new, recent, up-to-date |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | filthiness |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Augean, abominable, amurcous, bad, beastly, bloody, camarine, carious, coarse, colluvial, conspurcated, corrupt, crapulous, dirty, dowdy, draggletailed, dreggy, duddie, dusty, effete, excrementitious, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fimetic, flothery, flyblown, foul, frowzy, fusty, gory, grimy, gross, gurry, high, immund, impetiginous, impure, inquinated, maculate, maggoty, meraculous, mildewed, moldy, moth, musty, nasty, offensive, peccant, pedicular, pulicose, purulent, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, pythogenic, quisquilian, rancid, reasty, reechy, reeky, rotten, rotting, ruderous, rusty, scumbered, scurfy, slimy, slovenly, sluttish, smoky, smutty, snuffy, soiled, sooty, stercoraceous, sterquilinian, tainted, tatterdemalion, thick, touched, turbid, tuzzimuzzy, unclean, uncleanly, uncombed, unkempt, unpurified, unscoured, unstrained, unswept, untidy, unwashed, unwiped
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| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
unskillful, adrift, ambilevous, ambisinistrous, at fault, awkward, blunderly, bungling, clodpolish, clumsy, cow-handed, disqualified, foolish, gauche, gawky, giddy, green, heavy-handed, ill-advised, ill-conducted, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-qualified, inactive, inapt, incompetent, inconsiderate, inexperienced, inexpert, infelicitous, inhabile, jackleg, kitthoge, left-handed, lubberly, maladroit, misadvised, misconducted, misguided, out of practice, penny-wise and pound-foolish, quackish, raw, rusty, shiftless, slatternly, slovenly, stupid, unaccustomed, unadvised, unapt, unconversant, unfit, unguided, unhandy, uninitiated, unqualified, unstatesmanlike, unteachable, untractable, untrained, unused, wild
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