Decrepit meaning

Adjective: decrepit

Pronunciation: (di’kre-pit)

Decrepit meaning:

• Worn and broken down by hard use
• Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

Synonyms: sapless, enervate, rickety, creaky

Quotations: Steve Bailey – It was just old and decrepit. Now everyone has access to a lab facility where they really didn’t before.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba – How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, and the decrepit that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?

T.S. Eliot – The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Francis Quarles – And what’s a life? A weary pilgrimage, whose glory in one day doth fill the stage with childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

John Milton – O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

Sample sentences:

1. Julio is old and decrepit. But he can hit. And that’s why he’s here.
2. Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
3. It shows that no matter how much money the industry tries to throw at this, the majority of people still believe that nuclear is dirty, decrepit and dangerous.
4. We boarded a decrepit bus and its seats were not good and held together with friction tape.
5. We came across a decrepit old woman who was struggling move forward in the line.
6. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.
7. The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
8. Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter which is the door of death but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.
9. They jostled one another, competed for space below as they did above, in a minuet of ruin and triumph. In the subway, down in the dark, no citizen was more significant or more decrepit than another. All were smeared into a common average of existence, the A’s and the C’s tumbling or rising to settle into a ruthless mediocrity.
10. We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogony verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes.
11. Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn’t the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?
12. Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labelled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand new, high tech prisons.
13. I don’t want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don’t want to be a decrepit old lady.
14. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
15. Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.