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ramshackle 音标拼音: [r'æmʃ ,ækəl] a. 象要倒的,摇晃的,晃荡的 象要倒的,摇晃的,晃荡的 ramshackle adj 1: in deplorable condition; " a street of bedraggled tenements"; " a broken- down fence"; " a ramshackle old pier"; " a tumble- down shack" [ synonym: { bedraggled}, { broken- down}, { derelict}, { dilapidated}, { ramshackle}, { tatterdemalion}, { tumble- down}] Ramshackle \ Ram" shac* kle\ ( r[ a^] m" sh[ a^] k* k' l), a. [ Etymol. uncertain.] Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. [ 1913 Webster] There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster]
Ramshackle \ Ram" shac* kle\, v. t. To search or ransack; to rummage. [ Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for " ramshackle": battered, beat- up, beaten up, broken- down, crumbling, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, doddering, flimsy, groggy, in disrepair, in ruins, insubstantial, jerry- built, neglected, ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run- down, shaky, slummy, spidery, spindly, teetering, teetery, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, wobbly
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