Word Meanings - SHABBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay. 2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The dean was so shabby." Swift. 3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby

Additional info about word: SHABBY

1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay. 2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The dean was so shabby." Swift. 3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby fellows." Clarendon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHABBY)

• Dowdy
• Dull
• shabby
• common
• plain
• homely
• dingy
• scrubby
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• dwarf
• Paltry
• Mean
• shuffling
• trifling
• prevaricating
• shifty
• contemptible
• pitiable
• vi e
• worthless
• beggarly
• trashy
• Sorry
• Grieved
• pained
• hurt
• afflicted
• woe-begone
• doleful
• downhearted
• mortified
• vexed
• dejected
• poor
• vile

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHABBY)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to SHABBY)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• MORTIFIER
  One who, or that which, mortifies.
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• GRIEVABLE
  Lamentable.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.