unrepair

[uhn-ri-pair]

noun

1. lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation.

   in a state of unrepair.

unrepair

/ ˌʌnrɪˈpɛə /

noun

1. a less common word for disrepair

Other Word Forms

• unrepaired adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of unrepair¹

First recorded in 1870–75; un- ¹ + repair ¹

Example Sentences

Unrepair, un-rē-pār′, n. an unsound state.—adj.

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His farm went to ruin and unrepair.

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From every point of vantage the steeples of Notre Dame de Noyon add the one ingredient which makes a unity of the entire ensemble,—a true old-world atmosphere, a town seen in not too apparent a state of unrepair and certainly not a degenerate.

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The place was indeed in a state of unrepair.

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Learning all but disappeared; the useful arts were little cultivated; cities fell into decay and the roads that bound them together were left in unrepair; the life of the time, barren alike in hovel and castle, was supported by the crude labor of a servile class.

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