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Definition of Ramshackle in English :

Ramshackle

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Adjective

1. bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

in deplorable condition

Example Sentences:
'a street of bedraggled tenements'
'a broken-down fence'
'a ramshackle old pier'
'a tumble-down shack'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ramshackle

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adjective

(esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict

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Ramshackle

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adjective

loose and rickety; likely to fall to pieces; shaky

a ramshackle old building

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ramshackle

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adj.

So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely; rickety: a ramshackle cabin in the woods.

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