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kaput
ka·put also ka·putt K0014000 (kä-po͝ot′, -po͞ot′, kə-)adj. Informal Incapacitated or destroyed.
[German kaputt, from French capot, not having won a single trick at piquet, perhaps from French dialectal caper, to look at on the sly, knit the brows, from French cape, cape (as in sous cape, on the sly, secretly (literally, under the cape)), from Provençal capa, from Late Latin cappa.]kaput (kæˈpʊt) adj (postpositive) informal ruined, broken, or not functioning[C20: from German kaputt done for, from French être capot to have made no tricks (literally: to be hoodwinked), from capot hooded cloak]ka•put (kɑˈpʊt, -ˈput, kə-)
adj. Slang. 1. ruined; done for; demolished. 2. unable to operate or continue; broken: The TV went kaput. [1890–95; < German: orig. trickless (in game of piquet) < French (être) capot (to be) without tricks, i.e., make zero score] kaputA German word meaning done for, used to mean broken, destroyed, or out of order.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | kaput - destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"done for, gonecolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechdestroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind" |
kaputadjective (Informal) broken, finished, dead, destroyed, ruined, wrecked, undone, extinct, defunct, dead in the water (informal) His film career was kaput.kaputadjectiveInformal. No longer effective, capable, or valuable:done, done for, finished, through, washed-up.Idioms: at the end of the line, over the hill, past one's prime.Translationskaput
Synonyms for kaputadj brokenSynonyms- broken
- finished
- dead
- destroyed
- ruined
- wrecked
- undone
- extinct
- defunct
- dead in the water
Synonyms for kaputadj no longer effective, capable, or valuableSynonyms- done
- done for
- finished
- through
- washed-up
Synonyms for kaputadj destroyed or killedSynonymsRelated Words |