Decrepitude meaning

Noun: decrepitude

Pronunciation: (di’kre-pi,t(y)ood)

Decrepitude meaning: A state of deterioration due to old age or long use

Synonyms: dilapidation

Derived forms: decrepit

Quotations: Mike McGovern – Whether these decrees were signed by the president and absolutely contradictory or not, either way it shows the advanced decrepitude of the management of the affairs of state in Guinea.

Emile M. Cioran – I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

Conrad Black – We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute commitment for insight.

Charles Lamb – If peradventure, reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of thy life thy shining youth in the irksome confinement of an office; to have thy prison days prolonged through middle age down to decrepitude and silver hairs, without hope of release or respite; to have lived to forget that there are such things as holidays, or to remember them but as the prerogatives of childhood; then, and then only, will you be able to appreciate my deliverance.

Sample sentences:

1. They’re just too old and they are in an advanced state of decrepitude.
2. Death is always welcome but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude and senility.
3. With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
4. Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.
5. States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
6. I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
7. We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
8. His house has finally fallen into decrepitude and his car also got damaged.
9. In most of the countries, social and political decrepitude is seen and patriotism is often unknown.
10. They all have passed directly into decrepitude from their middle age and they are not enjoying this state of being decrepit.