kaput
/kəˈpʊt/
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British/kəˈpɵt/
kaput adjective: out of order; not working.
Adjective
kaput (not comparable)
- Out of order; not working.
- My car went kaput.
- The vending machine is kaput.
kaput meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Thai
kaput in Urdu
- بیکار, خراب, نکما, نکمی, ٹوٹا ہوا
kaput in Malayalam
- malfunctioning, broken, broken-down
- തകർന്ന, കേടുവന്ന് ഉപയോഗശൂന്യമായ, പൊട്ടിയ, തകരാറിലായ, ഭിന്ന, കേടായ
kaput in Kannada
- ಧ್ವಂಸವಾಗಿ ಹೋದ, ಹಾಳಾದ, ನಾಶವಾದ, ನಿರುಪಯುಕ್ತವಾದ, ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದಂತಾದ, ಬಳಕೆ ತಪ್ಪಿದ
kaput in Thai
- out of order
- เจ๊ง jéng, พัง pang
Examples of kaput in a sentence
- His career is kaput.
- Her marriage went kaput.
- In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution.2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian, archived from the...
- At this point, it seems safe to declare that the historic coalition that powered the president’s second reelection is finished—kaput.2026 April 16, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Elaine Godfrey, “Trump Voters Are Over It”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington...
Synonyms of kaput
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- Donald Ducked
- down
- duff
- faulty
- flaky
- FUBAR
- fucked
- fuckered up
- inoperative
- janky
- jiggered
- knackered
- malfunctioning
- munted
- nonfunctional
- nonoperational
- offline
- off one's feed
- on the blink
- on the fritz
- out
- out of commission
- out of gas
- out of kilter
- out of order
- out of service
- out of sorts
- out of whack
- screwed up
- stuffed
Forms of kaput
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Origin of kaput
Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.
Words formed from kaput
Words that rhyme with kaput
Questions about kaput
- What does kaput mean?
- Kaput means out of order; not working.
- What is kaput in Urdu?
- Kaput in Urdu is بیکار, خراب, نکما. See Kaput meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use kaput in a sentence?
- His career is kaput.
- What part of speech is kaput?
- Kaput is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce kaput?
- Kaput is pronounced /kəˈpʊt/ (UK).
Words near kaput in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kaput (page history and authors); kaput (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kaput (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); kaput (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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