What are some opposite words for shabby?
Antonyms for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term shabby.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
shabby
Synonyms:
ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry
Princeton's WordNet
moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattyadjective
showing signs of wear and tear
"a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
Antonyms:
honourable, honorable, newSynonyms:
flashy, moth-eaten, ratty, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, dusty, trashy, loud, garish, brassy, cheap, cold, mothy, tawdry, flash, tatty, stale, gaudyshabbyadjective
mean and unworthy and despicable
"shabby treatment"
Antonyms:
honourable, new, honorableSynonyms:
ratty, moth-eaten, tatty
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
shabbyadjective
Synonyms:
seedy, threadbare, tacky , mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible
How to use shabby in a sentence?
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town. ... They fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol, there's no doubt in my mind that when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing a possible revocation of probation, they made a conscious decision to run, and they did.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #27 | new | |
| #12949 | honorable | |
| #16760 | honourable | |
| #25249 | shabby |
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