threadbare · specious; flimsy; dubious
çekim: karşılaştırma fadenscheiniger · üstünlük am fadenscheinigsten
eş: abgetragen, abgenutzt, schäbig, durchschaubar, vorgeschoben, durchsichtig
zıt: belastbar, fundiert, begründet
köken: From older fadenschein, corresponding to Faden (“thread”) + Schein (“appearance”).
🔊 Eine fadenscheinigere Ausrede ist dir wohl nicht eingefallen.
🔊 Dieser Mann ist sehr, sehr… fadenscheinig!
past participle of élimer
eş: limé
worn · worn out, threadbare, shabby · ruined
eş: consumato, consunto, frusto, liso, usurato, abusato
köken: From the short past participle of logorare (“wear out”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle logorato.
shabby
çekim: karşılaştırma havelozer · üstünlük meest haveloos
eş: armoedig, onverzorgd, bouwvallig, deplorabel
köken: From have (“possession, goods”) + -loos (“-less”).
aile: haveloosheid
shabby (torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged) · exhausted (very tired)
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Japonca 🔊 ぼろぼろ /bo̞ɾo̞bo̞ɾo̞/ tired, exhausted · crumbling, in need of repair · ragged, beat up
çekim: geçmiş ぼろぼろした
köken: Reduplication of ぼろ (boro, “rags, worn out clothes”); see that entry for additional details. May be related to, or otherwise influenced by, verbs 滅びる (horobiru, “to fall to ruin, to crumble, to be destroyed”), 滅ぼす (horobosu, “to ruin, to make something crumble, to destroy”).
🔊 この私を見て。仕事と夜遊びに明け暮れて、肺は真っ黒。肝臓ボロボロ。１２歳よ。
🔊 抵抗できずぼろぼろになる
moth-eaten (also figuratively of something old in poor condition)
köken: mal (“moth”) + äten (“eaten”)
🔊 en gammal maläten björnfäll
worn, worn out, decrepit · past, elapsed · hackneyed, banal, trite, clichéd (repeated too often)
çekim: karşılaştırma kuluneempi · üstünlük kulunein
aile: kuluneisuus
🔊 Kuluneina yhdeksänä kuukautena on pidätetty yli sata pomminkantajaa.
shabby · covered with moss
çekim: karşılaştırma omšelejší · üstünlük nejomšelejší
köken: From o- + mech (“moss”) + -elý. Possibly related to Czech omčený, from omknúti.
shabby
köken: Past participle of ponosi.
thin; slim · threadbare
çekim: çoğul rāllī · tamlayan rāllī
köken: Contraction of rārulus, from rārus + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
past participle of gastar
bare · unadorned, spare (austere, stripped down) · close-cropped
çekim: karşılaştırma loime · üstünlük is loime
köken: From Old Irish lomm (“bare”).
aile: ar lom, cuireata ar lom, cuireata lom, de lom, lom ar, lom chun, lom láithreach, lom le, lomabharróg, lomaosta
shabby
çekim: karşılaştırma méi schappeg · üstünlük am schappegsten
shabby; torn or worn · clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments
köken: nag- + ka- + gidlay
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