Ramshackle Definition

rămshăkəl
adjective
Loose and rickety; likely to fall to pieces; shaky.
A ramshackle old building.
Webster's New World

In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.

They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
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Origin of Ramshackle

  • Back-formation from obsolete ranshackled ramshackle alteration of ransackled past participle of ransackle to ransack frequentative of Middle English ransaken to pillage ransack

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • First attested 1830, back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, past participle of ransackle (“to ransack"), frequentative of Middle English ransaken (“to pillage").

    From Wiktionary

Ramshackle Sentence Examples

  • It has a slightly ramshackle atmosphere, which adds to the charm.

  • At the end of the track we came to a small ramshackle building, the research center.

  • So when Bruce builds a ramshackle hut near her, she is not best pleased.

  • In a ramshackle old house the wind becomes a constant, unsettling moan beyond the walls.

  • Echo The World (We Live In) has a ramshackle charm, off-kilter melodies and delightfully crisp vocals abound.

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