Dilapidated vs Slum - What's the difference?
dilapidated | slum |
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
:*Charles Dickens,
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
As verbs the difference between dilapidated and slum
is that dilapidated is while slum is to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.As a adjective dilapidated
is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.As a noun slum is
a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.dilapidated
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beat * beat up * beaten up * bedraggled * broken-down * ramshackle * ruinous * rundown * tatterdemalion * tumbledownslum
English
(wikipedia slum)Noun
(en noun)- Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge [...] you will find groups of boys [...] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber [...].
Gambling.
