Antonyms for shabby
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : shab-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃæb i |
Definition of shabby
Origin :- 1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed," with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), literally "scab" (now only dialectal in the literal sense, in reference to a disease of sheep), from Old English sceabb (the native form of the Scandinavian word that yielded Modern English scab; also see sh-). Cf. Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig "shabby."
- Of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh" from 1680s; meaning "inferior in quality" is from 1805. Figurative sense "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," first recorded 1754. Related: Shabaroon "disreputable person," c.1700.
- adj broken-down; in poor shape
- adj despicable
- And while he slept the ground-squirrel ravaged the pockets of his shabby coat.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- It had the well-worn look of an old coat, shabby but comfortable.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- From the sounds, she judged that he was putting on his shabby gray coat.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The shabby bag between them attracted Gloria's curious gaze.
- Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- He wore, indeed, a shabby greenish-gray suit, and a flannel shirt.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- You have to go to work, and it worries me terribly when I see you shabby.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- His clothes are shabby and neglected; he walks with a shuffling, tired movement.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- I open, and lo, a policeman in shabby uniform, makes inquiry about Khalid.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Only your bits of shabby duds—that's all that pretty faces like yours wants.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- In the shabby main room of that dwelling, Andre-Louis halted him again.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
Synonyms for shabby
- bare
- bedraggled
- beggarly
- cheap
- contemptible
- crummy
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- despisable
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dirty
- disfigured
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- ignoble
- ignominious
- inconsiderate
- inglorious
- low
- low-down
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- mercenary
- miserable
- miserly
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- rotten
- ruined
- ruinous
- run-down
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scummy
- seedy
- selfish
- shady
- shameful
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- sordid
- sorry
- squalid
- stingy
- tacky
- tattered
- thoughtless
- threadbare
- tired
- unkind
- unworthy
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
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