Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless:
— A decayed foundation.

synoniemen: rotted, rotten.

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile^†; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless^†, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic^†, asthenic^†; nervous.    soft, effeminate, feminate^†, womanly.    frail, fragile, shattery^†; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy^†; drooping, tottering etc. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied etc. 158; decrepit.    languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish^†; sickly etc. (disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid^†, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.    unstrengthened etc. 159^†, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless^†, defenseless etc. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.    on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless etc. 429.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 653: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy^†, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].    slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.    [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.    unscoured^†, unswept^†, unwiped^†, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified^†; squalid; lutose^†, slammocky^†, slummocky^†, sozzly^†.    nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy^†; fetid etc. 401.    [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid^†, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral^†, lentiginous^†, touched, fusty, effete, reasty^†, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous^†; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous^†, excrementitious^†; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous^†; gory, bloody; rotting etc. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.    crapulous etc. (intemperate) 954^†; gross etc. (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious^†, fimicolous^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather [U.S.]; valetudinary^†.    unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose^†, healthless^†, infirm, chlorotic [Med.], unbraced^†.    drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.    morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid^†, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic^†, pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic^†, rachitic; syntectic^†, syntectical^†; tabetic^†, varicose.    touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat etc. (useless) 645 [Fr.].    weakly, weakened etc. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed etc. (deteriorated) 659; incurable etc. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund etc. (death) 360.    morbific etc. 657^†; epidemic, endemic; zymotic^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling etc. v.; on the wane, on the decline; tabid^†; degenerate; marescent^†; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect etc. 651; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U.S.].    decayed etc. v.; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved etc. (vicious) 945; decrepid^†, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat [Fr.], out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work etc. (useless) 645.    at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162; tottering etc. (dangerous) 665; past cure etc. (hopeless) 859; fatigued etc. 688; retrograde etc. (retrogressive) 283; deleterious etc. 649.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 735: unfortunate, unblest^†, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous^†, unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor etc. 804; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.    planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.    adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.    ... meer laten zien