Dilapidated vs Old-fashioned - What's the difference?
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Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
* , chapter=1
, title= Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
A whiskey-based cocktail.
* 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
As adjectives the difference between dilapidated and old-fashioned
is that dilapidated is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect while old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.As a verb dilapidated
is past participle of lang=en.As a noun old-fashioned is
a whiskey-based cocktail.dilapidated
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beat * beat up * beaten up * bedraggled * broken-down * ramshackle * ruinous * rundown * tatterdemalion * tumbledownold-fashioned
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Alternative forms
* old fashionedAdjective
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Usage notes
* Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.Noun
(wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .