Adjective: run-down
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more run-down |
| Superlative | most run-down |
Sample Sentences
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The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […]. [1958 January 26, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:]
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In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:]
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Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential. [2020 August 26, “Network News: Stations investment boosts regeneration, says report”, in Rail, page 17:]
Adjectives inflected like run-down
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Deverbal from run down.