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[ ram-shak-uhl ] / ˈræmˌʃæk əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR ramshackle ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveloosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house. Origin of ramshackle1815–25; compare earlier rans(h)ackled, obscurely akin to ransack SYNONYMS FOR ramshackletumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, flimsy. SEE SYNONYMS FOR ramshackle ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM ramshackleram·shack·le·ness, nounWords nearby ramshackleRamses I, Ramses II, Ramses III, Ramsey, Ramsgate, ramshackle, ram's-head lady's-slipper, ramshorn snail, Ram Singh, ramson, ramsons Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ramshackleThey set out a strong set of “best practices” to modernize and improve the ramshackle way our democracy runs elections. A Bipartisan Path to Fixing America’s Broken Elections|Michael Waldman|January 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Passing this unworkable, ramshackle bill is counterproductive or irrelevant to that task. "Kill the Bill"|Michael Tomasky|July 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST Houses, some grand, others ramshackle, sit empty, cars in driveways. Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup Bogged Down in Bureaucracy, Could Take Decades|Lennox Samuels|March 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST The main underlying cause of Election Day chaos remains our ramshackle voter registration system. Obama Needs to Embrace Voting Reform in 2013 State of the Union|Michael Waldman, Lawrence Norden|February 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps the biggest problem in election administration today is that we are using an outdated, ramshackle registration system. After Voter-ID Wars, What Next? A Truce Through Modernization.|Lawrence Norden|September 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST But John harnessed his decrepit mare to his ramshackle buggy, and started for town. The Girls of Central High|Gertrude W. Morrison The bo'sun has cut adrift their ramshackle, old sieve of a boat, and she's now a quarter of a mile astern, half-full of water. Romance|Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer They had a ramshackle house and barn, in a bit of open meadow by the mouth of one of the brooks. A Northern Countryside|Rosalind Richards The average Himalayan house is such a ramshackle affair that it is a miracle how it holds together. Birds of the Indian Hills|Douglas Dewar I looked round, but the ramshackle cart was hidden by the turn of the road. The Wonder|J. D. Beresford
British Dictionary definitions for ramshackle
adjective(esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict Word Origin for ramshackleC17 ramshackled, from obsolete ransackle to ransack Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ramshackleshabby, dilapidated, flimsy, crumbling, decrepit, broken-down, derelict, rickety, jerry-built, shaky, unsafe, unsteady, tottering, tumble-down |