Need another word that means the same as “decrepitude”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “decrepitude” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Decrepitude” are: dilapidation, feebleness, enfeeblement, infirmity, weakness, frailty, debilitation, debility, malaise, ricketiness, dereliction, ruin, disrepair, rack and ruin, decay, deterioration
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “decrepitude” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| debilitation | Serious weakening and loss of energy. |
| debility | Physical weakness, especially as a result of illness. Most of the cases presented with general debility muscle weakness and weight loss. |
| decay | An inferior state resulting from the process of decaying. The old barn rapidly fell into decay. |
| dereliction | The state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated. His derelictions were not really intended as crimes. |
| deterioration | Process of changing to an inferior state. A deterioration in the condition of the patient. |
| dilapidation | A cause of action to force a tenant to pay for dilapidations. The mill was in a state of dilapidation. |
| disrepair | Poor condition of a building or structure due to neglect. The station gradually fell into disrepair. |
| enfeeblement | Serious weakening and loss of energy. |
| feebleness | The quality of lacking intensity or substance. |
| frailty | The condition of being weak and delicate. The increasing frailty of old age. |
| infirmity | The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age. Old age and infirmity come to men and women alike. |
| malaise | A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify. A society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise. |
| rack and ruin | Framework for holding objects. |
| ricketiness | The quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place. |
| ruin | Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined. A large white house falling into gentle ruin. |
| weakness | The condition of being financially weak. His weakness for prawn cocktails. |
| age | A division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy. It was replaced because of its age. |
| aged | Advanced in years aged is pronounced as two syllables. Aged rocks. |
| aging | The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age. |
| crone | An ugly old woman. |
| debilitated | Lacking energy or vitality. A debilitated patient. |
| decrepit | (of a person) elderly and infirm. A decrepit bus its seats held together with friction tape. |
| derelict | A ship or other piece of property abandoned by the owner and in poor condition. A derelict Georgian mansion. |
| dilapidated | (of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect. The tank was now rather dilapidated. |
| dilapidation | A cause of action to force a tenant to pay for dilapidations. The mill was in a state of dilapidation. |
| elderly | People who are old collectively. Elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper. |
| emaciated | Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food. She was so emaciated she could hardly stand. |
| emaciation | Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease. Thin to the point of emaciation. |
| fading | Weakening in force or intensity. |
| feeble | Lacking strength- Nathaniel Hawthorne. A feeble excuse. |
| fragile | Easily destroyed or threatened. Fragile old bones. |
| frail | The weight of a frail basket full of raisins or figs between 50 and 75 pounds. The balcony is frail. |
| infirm | (of a person or their judgement) weak; irresolute. He was infirm of purpose. |
| outdated | Out of date; obsolete. Outdated equipment. |
| physical | Impelled by physical force especially against resistance. The physical characteristics of the earth. |
| physique | Constitution of the human body. They were much alike in physique. |
| ramshackle | (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair. A ramshackle old pier. |
| rickety | Affected by rickets. A rickety banking system. |
| ruin | Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined. You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank. |
| ruined | Destroyed physically or morally. A ruined castle. |
| senescence | Loss of a cell’s power of division and growth. |
| senile | (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties. She couldn t cope with her senile husband. |
| tatterdemalion | Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing. A tatterdemalion prince. |
| vulnerable | (of a person) in need of special care, support, or protection because of age, disability, or risk of abuse or neglect. We were in a vulnerable position. |
| weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. He was not weak or a compromiser. |
| weakly | Sickly; not robust. If the lambs were weakly we had to feed them by hand. |
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