Decrepitude

Quick meaning: Decrepitude is a noun meaning The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

Meaning

The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

Example Sentences

He recalled that when he accompanied Nixon to Peking in February, 1972, he had been struck by Mao's decrepitude and Chou's failing health.

There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.

Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.

We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.

Word Forms

• decrepitudes

Synonyms for decrepitude

Depending on context, synonyms include cobwebbiness, hoariness, dilapidation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dilapidation, decayedness, decay, decadence, dilapidatedness, wornness.

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