The Clue
Dilapidated (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SEEDY
Tags
Notes
The answer SEEDY is seen frequently, appearing about once every 180 puzzles.
Related Clues
Debilitated
Disreputable
Mean
Rundown
Sordid
Squalid
Unkempt
Wretched
Broken-down
Down at heel
Down at the heels
Down-at-the-heels
Far from posh
Gone to pot
Like a fleabag
Like a flophouse
Like a pomegranate
Like watermelons
Moth-eaten
Out at the elbows
Poorly kept
Run-down
In sorry shape
Like skid row
Not so nice
Not well-kept
Run-down, as a bar
Shabby followers of a bee
Definition
SEEDY as an adjective:
1. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
2. (scruffy, seedy) = shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
3. (ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy) = somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
4. (seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid) = morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"