Definitions for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tatty(adj)

   showing signs of wear and tear

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

2. shabby(adj)

   mean and unworthy and despicable

   "shabby treatment"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. shabby(Adjective)

   Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.

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

2. shabby(Adjective)

   Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

   The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.

3. shabby(Adjective)

   Mean; paltry; despicable.

   shabby treatment

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Shabby(noun)

   torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged

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

2. Shabby(noun)

   clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments

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

3. Shabby(noun)

   mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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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. Thomas Markle:

   They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they're making it shabby.

2. 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.

3. Sinclair Lewis:

   In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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