Synonyms for down-at-heel
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : doun-uh t-th uh-heelz or doun-uh t-th uh-heel |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhilz or ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhil |
Top 10 synonyms for down-at-heel Other synonyms for the word down-at-heel
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- base
- bedraggled
- beggarly
- broken-down
- common
- contemptible
- crude
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- déclassé
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- dowdy
- down-at-heel
- frayed
- frumpy
- gone to seed
- hack
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- inelegant
- inferior
- insignificant
- limited
- low
- lowborn
- lowly
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- mediocre
- menial
- modest
- moth-eaten
- narrow
- nasty
- neglected
- obscure
- ordinary
- out-of-date
- outmoded
- paltry
- pitiful
- plebeian
- poky
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- proletarian
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run-down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- second-class
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- shoddy
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- sordid
- squalid
- stodgy
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- tawdry
- tired
- unbecoming
- undistinguished
- unkempt
- unstylish
- unsuitable
- untidy
- unwashed
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
Définition of down-at-heel
Origin :- of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also cf. heeled.
- As in mean : adj poor; of or in inferior circumstances
- As in tacky : adj cheap, tasteless
- As in scrubby : adj shabby
- As in tatty : adj shabby
- Its latter days were dreary, down-at-heel, and disreputable enough.
- Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook
- What a tousled-haired, down-at-heel, out-at-elbows Clerkenwell exile!
- Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
- There were two or three buckeens in the hall, and Darby and one of the down-at-heel serving-boys were laying the evening meal.
- Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
- Nothing swept and garnished; nothing evincing one grain of past or present reverence—a down-at-heel indifferent idolatry.
- Extract from : « The Spirit of Rome » by Vernon Lee
- She looked complacently down at her stubby little feet in their down-at-heel beaded slippers.
- Extract from : « Olive in Italy » by Moray Dalton
- Her bedroom slippers were still so new and pretty that it was impossible to picture them down-at-heel.
- Extract from : « Married » by August Strindberg
- In the house he wore slippers, which seemed always old and down-at-heel.
- Extract from : « Hawthorne and His Circle » by Julian Hawthorne
- Seedy and down-at-heel, they lounge about the cafés and hotels frequented by English travellers.
- Extract from : « The Sign of Silence » by William Le Queux
- Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
- Extract from : « The American Egypt » by Channing Arnold
- At that moment entered Félicien Garbure, a down-at-heel elderly man, who had been wont to sit at Paragot's table.
- Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke
Antonyms for down-at-heel
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