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Definitions for Shabby

[1] impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
[2] showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect: The rooms on the upper floors of the mansion had a rather shabby appearance, as if they had not been much in use of late.
[3] wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance: a shabby person.
[4] run-down, seedy, or dilapidated: a shabby hotel.
[5] meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.: shabby behavior.
[6] inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.: a shabby rendition of the sonata.
[7] threadbare or dilapidated in appearance
[8] wearing worn and dirty clothes; seedy
[9] mean, despicable, or unworthy shabby treatment
[10] dirty or squalid

Words related to Shabby

ratty, shoddy, run-down, scruffy, decaying, dilapidated, pitiful, tattered, threadbare, worn, dingy, decrepit, desolate, crummy, ramshackle, seedy, squalid, rickety, tacky, cheap

Words nearby Shabby

shaban, shabash, shabbas, shabbas goy, shabbat, shabby, shabby-genteel, shabelle, shabu-shabu, shabuoth, shacharis

Origin of Shabby

1660–70; shab (Middle English; Old English sceabb scab) + -y1; cognate with German schäbig

Other words from Shabby

shab·bi·ly , adverb
shab·bi·ness , noun
un·shab·bi·ly , adverb
un·shab·by , adjective

Word origin for Shabby

C17: from Old English sceabb scab + -y 1

Synonyms for Shabby

crummy, decaying, decrepit, desolate, dilapidated, dingy, pitiful, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, run-down, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, worn, bare, bedraggled, decayed, degenerated, deteriorated, deteriorating, disfigured, disreputable, dog-eared, faded, frayed, gone to seed, mangy, meager, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, poor, poverty-stricken, ragged, ruined, ruinous, scrubby, sleazy, slipshod, tired, worn-out, worse for wear, wretched