Ramshackle

Quick meaning: Ramshackle is an adjective meaning In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.

Meaning

In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.

More Meanings

1. Badly or carelessly organized.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To ransack.

Example Sentences

A ramshackle old empire. (of Austria-Hungary).

They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.

There came […] my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.

Steady old Curés come jolting past, now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in;[…]

Word Forms

• ramshackles
• ramshackling
• ramshackled

Synonyms for ramshackle

Depending on context, synonyms include shabby, tacky, scroungy, beat, beat up, bedraggled.

Antonyms for ramshackle

Common opposites include intact, rustless, spick-and-span, thrifty, unbroken, undamaged.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dilapidated, damaged, broken-down, bedraggled, unsound, battered.

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