WordNet
n. poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition [syn: unfitness, bad condition] [ant: fitness]
Usage examples of "poor shape".
Because of the bad drouth the last two years, things were in poor shape.
One touch of those claws, and you were in poor shape, and that was with the hound-sized ones.
From what you're telling meI mean, let's assume you're right, just for the sake of argumentthe problem's compounded by the fact he was in such poor shape.
After two weeks undiscovered, the body would have been in very poor shape.
Between panic and motion nausea, the unit was in poor shape when the convoy ran into a Posleen ambush outside of Warrenton, VA.
The barn and corrals had been in such poor shape when he and Gus bought the place that it took constant work just to keep them from total collapse.
He didn't have to be a doctor to know that he was in pretty poor shape.
For the next two years he was in poor shape, able to leave the buttes for only short trips and always gratified when winter came so that he could sleep for five or six months, but gradually he began to feel better, and the gaping wounds in his body retreated into scars.