slum-ridden

adjective

Full of slums.

Meanings

adjectiveslum-ridden (comparative more slum-ridden, superlative most slum-ridden)

comparative more slum-ridden · superlative most slum-ridden · alternative slumridden

  1. Full of slums.
    1 more example

    Pearson's first idea, set out in 1839, was for a railway in a wide, covered-over cutting. It would connect a giant half-underground station at Farringdon with stations all over England. [...] The appeal of Farringdon was that this slum-ridden area was being redeveloped by Pearson's new employers, the Corporation of London.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slum-ridden,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slum-ridden.

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