Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
- Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
- Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
- (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
- (medicine, archaic) Of the pulse: thready, weak.
- (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
- (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab; scabby.
Verbi
Esimerkit
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
- The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
- shabby treatment
Taivutusmuodot
| Komparatiivi | shabbier |
| Superlatiivi | shabbiest |