dilapidated
adjective
[ dɪˈlapɪdeɪtɪd ]
• (of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect.
• "old, dilapidated buildings"
Similar:
run down,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
broken-down,
in disrepair,
shabby,
battered,
rickety,
shaky,
unsound,
crumbling,
in ruins,
ruined,
decayed,
decaying,
deteriorating,
deteriorated,
decrepit,
worn out,
neglected,
uncared-for,
untended,
unmaintained,
badly maintained,
the worse for wear,
falling to pieces,
falling apart,
gone to rack and ruin,
gone to seed,
shambly,
slummy,
shacky,
rumpty,
dilapidate
verb
• cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin.
• "a ruined Chappell, built by the Spaniard, and dilapidated by the Dutch"
Origin:
early 16th century (in the sense ‘waste, squander’): from Latin dilapidat- ‘demolished, squandered’, from the verb dilapidare, literally ‘scatter as if throwing stones’, from di- ‘apart, abroad’ + lapis, lapid- ‘stone’.
