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- :in a very bad condition and needing to be repaired a ramshackle [= dilapidated] old house
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Ramshackleness definition: Quality of being ramshackle .
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A ramshackle building is badly made or in bad condition, and looks as if it is likely to fall down. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building. American English : ramshackle / ˈræmʃækəl /
1. Of a person, action, etc.: unsteady, irregular, disorderly. 2. Esp. of a building or vehicle: loose and shaky, as if ready…. Noun. 1. A ramshackle building, vehicle, etc. 2. Scottish and English regional (Lincolnshire).
I pass a ramshackle house where an old woman pulls feathers from a huge chicken.
Ramshackle has nothing to do with rams, nor the act of being rammed, nor shackles. The word is an alteration of ransackled, an obsolete form of the verb ransack, meaning "to search through or plunder." (Ransack comes from Old Norse words meaning "house" and "seek.")
1. :in a very bad condition and needing to be repaired. a ramshackle [= dilapidated] old house. a ramshackle [= run-down] neighborhood. 2. :not carefully made or put together. The movie's ramshackle plot is confusing and not believable.
adjective. /ˈræmˌʃækl/ (of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc.) in a very bad condition and needing repair synonym tumbledown a ramshackle house. Definitions on the go. Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
