dilapidated

Modifies a noun

• mansion: The setting is the elegant but dilapidated mansion of a court nobleman.
• tenement: Mill Street also included a complex of crowded and dilapidated tenements offering accommodation to the poorest in society ( Trinder 1982, 9 ).
• hut: The dilapidated mud huts have been replaced with better built dwellings all with corrugated steel roofs.
• barn: Then one day a stranger fetches up in their dilapidated barn.
• garage: At the top of the garden is a dilapidated single garage.
• cottage: A row of dilapidated cottages behind the house provide the next clue; in one, an upper floor window is surprisingly clean.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: The fact that worship had for long been offered in a somewhat dilapidated Temple did not appeal to him.
• rather: However, the shelter which is going to be used for cooking was rather dilapidated.
• seriously: In a nutshell, the seriously dilapidated Center risks being abandoned by Sport England in 2004.
• slightly: The golden cupola of the cathedral looms high above long white houses and the whole place has a slightly dilapidated air.
• very: She had asked for the funeral to be held in the Chapel, now very dilapidated.
• much: Nearby are his greenhouses, now much dilapidated, where once he grew his prize orchids.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The present farm was built in 1847 to replace the previous building which had become dilapidated.
• look: The station platforms were looking very dilapidated by this time.