shabby
adjective · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
Đồng nghĩa: decrepit, moth-eaten, run-down, timeworn, tired, tacky, clapped out, damaged, defective, deteriorated, dilapidated, effete, faulty, munted, outworn, passé, past it, past one's prime, raddled, ragged, ravaged, rinky-dink, rough, shabby, stale, tired, unimproved, wasted, weakened, wrecked, wrecksome, worn, worn-out, worsened, shabby, tacky, scroungy, beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken-down, crumbling, derelict, dilapidated, draggled, neglected, ramshackle, ruinous, run-down, seedy, tatterdemalion, timeworn, tumbledown
- 2.
Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
- 3.
(figuratively)Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
shabby treatment
Đồng nghĩa: ungenerous, as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, niggardly, nipcheese, parsimonious, peddling, penny-wise, penny-pinching, penurious, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, still got one's communion money, stingy, swear, tight, tight-fisted, tight as a tick, tighter than Dick's hatband, ungenerous, ungiving
- 4.
(figuratively)Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
His painting is not too shabby.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
- 2.
(intransitive)To become shabby; to shabbify.
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ine-pro The adjective is derived from shab + -y.