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adjective
- 1. broken and useless; no longer working or effective: informal "the water pump's broken, kaput"
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Kaput is an adjective that means utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed, or unable to function. It comes from German kaputt, which was influenced by French capot, a term for losing at piquet.
Kaput is an informal adjective that means not working correctly or severely damaged. Learn how to use it in sentences, see synonyms and translations, and find out its origin and pronunciation.
Kaput is an informal adjective meaning ruined, broken, or not functioning. It comes from German kaputt, which may be related to French capot, meaning to have no tricks in a card game.
Kaput is an informal adjective that means completely broken, useless, or finished. It comes from German kaputt, which means done for, and from French être capot, which means to have made no tricks in a card game.
Kaput is a slang adjective meaning ruined, broken, or not functioning. It comes from German kaputt, which means "trickless" in a card game, or French être capot, which means "to have made no tricks".
Something that's kaput is broken, dead, or worthless. When your old car is finally kaput, it's not even worth fixing. You can use the adjective kaput to describe things that have stopped working as well as those that are utterly destroyed: "After the war, the whole village was basically kaput."
Kaput is an informal word that means something is completely broken, useless, or finished. Learn how to pronounce it, use it in sentences, and find out its synonyms and translations in other languages.
