Synonyms of mangy

mangy

adjective

ˈmān-jē 

as in dilapidated

showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect

a mangy old car that was covered in rust

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dilapidated
• neglected
• scruffy
• tattered
• tatty
• shabby
• miserable
• tired
• dumpy
• ragged
• desolate
• ratty
• scrubby
• tumbledown
• abandoned
• grungy
• seedy
• threadbare
• tacky
• gone to seed
• timeworn
• down-at-the-heels
• sleazy
• beat-up
• moth-eaten
• broken
• dog-eared
• tatterdemalion
• ruined
• run-down
• mean
• bombed-out
• unkept
• damaged
• decrepit
• bedraggled
• dingy
• forlorn
• wrecked
• deteriorated
• ramshackle
• decaying
• destroyed
• rickety
• godforsaken
• deteriorating
• broken-down
• injured
• worn-out
• rackety
• hurt
• impaired
• harmed
• rattletrap

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• new
• fresh
• brand-new
• kept-up
• maintained
• reconstructed
• patched
• mended
• spiffy
• cared-for
• rebuilt
• smart
• spruce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mangy

For some reason that has zero bearing on the plot, Digger loves his mangy cat and is determined to keep the ailing creature, half-blind and incontinent, alive at any cost. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Too mangy, too rangy, prowling in their bony elegance, leaping weightless from dangerously precarious mounds of sharp edges, peering yellow- eyed from shadows. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 May 2026

To write, especially in a first draft, is to submit myself to the mangy, cackling glory of not knowing. — Literary Hub, 17 Apr. 2026

Talking Heads played their first gig in June, 1975, opening for the Ramones at CBGB, a rock club on a mangy block in the East Village. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

That also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence. — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 30 July 2025

His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs. — Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024

Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads. — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024