hovel
Ramshackle crude shelter
A hovel is a small, crude, or wretched dwelling—the sort of place characterized by poverty and squalor.
The word appears in descriptions of desperate living conditions: peasants crowded into hovels, a one-room hovel with a dirt floor.
Used loosely, hovel disparages any shabby or cramped space: His apartment was a hovel.
Crudely built hut
lean-to · tumbledown · ramshackle · crumbling · decaying · derelict · rundown · weathered
Thoroughly unclean
- grimyCoated in stubborn dirt
- dingyDiscolored from grime
- unsanitaryLacking proper cleanliness
- fetidHaving foul odor
sordid · slum · tenement · ghetto · flophouse · dosshouse · vermin · rats
Small rural home
- hutSmall crude dwelling
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
- farmhouseDwelling on agricultural land
- croftEnclosed pasture near dwelling
bothy · homestead · thatched · mud · wattle · daub · earthen · timber
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
subsistence · peasant · serf · indigent · pauper · beggar · poorhouse · workhouse
shack
Crudely built hut
cabin · lean-to · tumbledown · ramshackle · crumbling · decaying · derelict · rundown · weathered · rickety
filthy
Thoroughly unclean
- grimyCoated in stubborn dirt
- dingyDiscolored from grime
- unsanitaryLacking proper cleanliness
fetid · sordid · slum · tenement · ghetto · flophouse · dosshouse · vermin · rats · soot
cottage
Small rural home
croft · bothy · homestead · thatched · mud · wattle · daub · earthen · timber · rural
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
hardship · subsistence · peasant · serf · indigent · pauper · beggar · poorhouse · workhouse · favela
refuge
Place of safety
lodging · quarters · habitat · burrow · den · lair · hole · dugout · cellar · garret
tiny
Extremely small in size
overcrowded · airless · windowless · dark · gloomy · poky · bare · spartan · meager · humble
- dwellingshouse, home, apartment, cabin, cottage
- hutsbeach hut, grass hut, mud hut, straw hut, thatched hut
- small dwellingstiny house, tiny home, tiny homes, tiny houses, micro apartment
- spacesspace, alcove, compartment, corner, place
- rundown buildingsshack, shanty, ruin, abandoned building
- medieval buildingsmanor, keep, great hall, gatehouse, chateau