tattered

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
  • "a man in a tattered shirt"
  • "the tattered flag"
  • "tied up in tattered brown paper"
  • "a tattered barefoot boy"
• ruined or disrupted
  • "a tattered remnant of its former strength"
  • "my torn and tattered past"

Adj

• Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.
• Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
• Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.

Verb

• simple past and past participle of tatter

Synonyms

beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, blowsy, broken-down, clapped out, crumbling, damaged, defective, derelict, deteriorated, dilapidated, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, downgone, draggle-tailed, draggled, effete, faulty, frowsy, frumpy, grotty, grufty, grungy, hashy, mangy, mean, munted, neglected, out at the heels, outworn, passé, piggy, qualifier, raddled, ragged, raggedy, raggy, ragtag, ramshackle, ravaged, ribby, rinky-dink, ruinous, run-down, schleppy, schlumpy, scratty, scrofulous, scroungy, scruffy, scrungy, seedy, shabby, shattered, slammocky, slatternly, slobbish, slobby, sloppy, slovenlike, slovenly, slummocky, sluttish, tacky, tatterdemalion, timeworn, tore up, trampish, tumbledown, unfine, unimproved, unkemmed, unkempt, unshaven, wasted, weakened, worn, worn-out, worsened, wrecked, wrecksome

Related Words

tatterdemalion, tatty