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Shabby vs Timeworn - What's the difference?

shabby | timeworn |

As adjectives the difference between shabby and timeworn

is that shabby is torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged while timeworn is showing the effects of wear due to long use.

shabby

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
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  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=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.
  • Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  • The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
  • Mean; paltry; despicable.
  • shabby treatment

    Derived terms

    * shabby-genteel (Webster 1913)

    timeworn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • showing the effects of wear due to long use
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
  • trite or banal; overused or hackneyed
  • Synonyms

    * See also