Definitions for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattyadjective

   showing signs of wear and tear

   "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

2. shabbyadjective

   mean and unworthy and despicable

   "shabby treatment"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. shabbyadjective

   Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.

   They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.

2. shabbyadjective

   Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

   The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.

3. shabbyadjective

   Mean; paltry; despicable.

   shabby treatment

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shabbyadjective

   A word that has crept into conversation and low writing; but ought not to be admitted into the language. Mean; paltry.

   The dean was so shabby, and look’d like a ninny,
   That the captain suppos’d he was curate to Jenny. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shabby

   Big Brother 2010, also known as Big Brother 11, was the eleventh series of the British reality television series Big Brother, and the final series of the show to be broadcast by Channel 4. The show followed twenty-one contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House. Each week, one or more of the housemates were evicted by a public vote. The last remaining housemate, Josie Gibson, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £100,000 and a place as a Housemate on Ultimate Big Brother, an All Star edition of Big Brother which began immediately after the conclusion of Big Brother 2010 It launched on 9 June 2010 and ended on 24 August 2010, lasting 77 days - the shortest run since the fifth series in 2004. Davina McCall returned as presenter for the eleventh and final time. Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, with seven additional housemate being introduced in later weeks. The series was watched by an average of 3 million viewers. Following Channel 4's decision in 2009 not to renew their contract with Endemol to show the series, Channel 5 bought the rights to Big Brother in the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast from 18 August 2011, Big Brother was axed again on 5 November 2018.

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1. shabby

   Shabby is an adjective used to describe something that is worn out, in poor condition, or lacking in quality or style. It typically refers to something that is old or dilapidated, often showing signs of neglect or disrepair.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Shabbynoun

   torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged

2. Shabbynoun

   clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments

3. Shabbynoun

   mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment

4. Etymology: [See Shab, n., Scabby, and Scab.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shabby

   shab′i,—adj. threadbare or worn, as clothes: having a look of poverty: mean in look or conduct: low: paltry.—adv. Shabb′ily.—n. Shabb′iness.—adj. Shabb′y-genteel′, keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though really shabby. [An adj. formed from shab, an old by-form of scab—thus a doublet of scabby.]

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say shabby in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shabby in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shabby in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of shabby in a Sentence

1. Tarrant County:

   I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town. ... They fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol, there's no doubt in my mind that when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing a possible revocation of probation, they made a conscious decision to run, and they did.

2. Albert Einstein:

   If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

3. Jean Baudrillard:

   The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

4. Willa Cather, My Antonia:

   Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

5. W. H. Auden:

   When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shabby
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shabby
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shabby
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabby
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shabby
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shabby