Dilapidated is a related term of customary.
As adjectives the difference between dilapidated and customary
is that dilapidated is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
As a verb dilapidated
is .
As a noun customary is
a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
dilapidated
English
Verb
(head)
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
Synonyms
* beat
* beat up
* beaten up
* bedraggled
* broken-down
* ramshackle
* ruinous
* rundown
* tatterdemalion
* tumbledown
customary
English
Noun
(customaries)
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
*
*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
Quotations
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39
*: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.
Synonyms
*
Derived terms
* customarily
Related terms
* consuetude
* costumal
* costume
* custom
* customer
* customization
* customize
