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tumbledown

tumbledown adjective: in disrepair; poorly maintained.

Adjective

tumbledown (comparative more tumbledown, superlative most tumbledown)

  1. In disrepair; poorly maintained.
    • They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
    • The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    Synonyms:
    ramshackle

tumbledown meaning in Malayalam

tumbledown in Malayalam

ramshackle, dilapidated, decrepit
ഇടിഞ്ഞുവീണ, തകർച്ച സംഭവിച്ച, ഇടിഞ്ഞു പൊളിഞ്ഞ, ജീർണ്ണിച്ച, ഉറഞ്ഞ, പഴകിപ്പൊളിഞ്ഞ

Synonyms of tumbledown

Forms of tumbledown

comparativemore tumbledown
superlativemost tumbledown
alternative formtumble-down

Origin of tumbledown

Deverbal from tumble down.

Questions about tumbledown

What does tumbledown mean?
Tumbledown means in disrepair; poorly maintained.
What is tumbledown in Malayalam?
Tumbledown in Malayalam is ഇടിഞ്ഞുവീണ, തകർച്ച സംഭവിച്ച, ഇടിഞ്ഞു പൊളിഞ്ഞ. See Tumbledown meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is tumbledown?
Tumbledown is an adjective.

Words near tumbledown in the dictionary

  1. tumbled in
  2. tumbled on
  3. tumbled to
  4. tumbled together
  5. tumbled up
  6. tumbledown
  7. tumbledung
  8. tumbledungs
  9. tumblehome
  10. tumblehomes
  11. tumblelog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumbledown (page history and authors); tumbledown (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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