ramshackle
adjective/ˈræmʃækl/
/ˈræmʃækl/
- (of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc.) in a very bad condition and needing repair synonym tumbledown
- a ramshackle house
- (of an organization or a system) badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long synonym rickety
- The opposition criticized the government’s ramshackle economic policies.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked’.
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