ADJ
- acceptable, fit, good, healthy
- She managed to get the company's finances into a healthy state
- appalling, awful, bad, desperate, dire, dreadful, pitiful, poor, sorry, terrible
- run-down
- We were shocked at the run-down state of the hospital
- emotional, mental, psychological
- He's not in a fit enough mental state to drive
- physical
- The inspectors assess the physical state of schools and equipment
- financial
- nervous, trance-like
- He goes into a trance-like state when he plays the guitar
- current, present
- former, previous
- natural
- You can either varnish the wood or leave it in its natural state
- constant, continual, continuous, permanent, perpetual
- The country is in a perpetual state of anarchy
- advanced
- an advanced state of dehydration
VERB + STATE
- get into, go into
- get sth into
PREP
- in a ~
- Jane was in a terrible state after losing her job
- into a ~
- Babies can cry themselves into a state of frenzy
- ~ of
- His life seems to be in a constant state of chaos
PHRASES
- be in a good/bad, etc. state of repair
- The house was in a poor state of repair when we bought it
- a state of affairs
- The brothers' refusal to work together had brought about this sad state of affairs
- a state of emergency
- The government has declared a state of emergency in the flooded regions
- a state of flux
- The education system is still in a state of flux following the recent reform
- a state of health
- He's concerned about his mother's state of health
- a state of mind
- Public speaking can produce a state of mind akin to panic
- a state of shock
- The driver was just sitting there in a state of shock
- a state of war
ADJ
- independent, nation, sovereign
- foreign
- democratic, one-party, socialist, totalitarian, etc.
- member
- member states of the European Union
- powerful, strong
- weak
- neighbouring
STATE + NOUN
- enterprise, monopoly
- control, ownership
- The telephone network is still under state control
- property
- Every citizen could buy shares in privatized state property
- sector, system
- Teachers in the state sector are asking for a 7% pay rise. schools outside the state system
- education, school
- Did you go to a state school or a private school?
- aid, funding, funds, subsidy, support
- benefit, pension
- unemployed people living on state benefit The state pension is barely enough to live on
- intervention
- large-scale state intervention in industry
- spending
- Some prefer tax cuts to greater state spending on health and social services
- employee
- secret
- He was shot for passing state secrets to foreign powers
PHRASES
- affairs/matters of state
- The president's wife is said to have a powerful hand in affairs of state
- head of state
- Visiting heads of state usually stay in the palace