flea-bitten

1. 1.

   worn and broken down by hard use

   “a creaky shack”

   “a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape”

   “a flea-bitten sofa”

   “a run-down neighborhood”

   “a woebegone old shack”

   Synonymscreakydecrepitderelictrun-downwoebegone

   Similarworn

Questions about flea-bitten

What does flea-bitten mean?

flea-bitten means "worn and broken down by hard use".

How many syllables are in flea-bitten?

flea-bitten has 4 syllables: fle-a--bit-ten. The stress falls on "a-".

What is another word for flea-bitten?

Close synonyms include creaky, decrepit, derelict, run-down, woebegone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flea-bitten a common word?

flea-bitten is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.