Dictionary Definition
tattered adj
1 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"; "a
tatterdemalion prince" [syn: tatterdemalion]
2 ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of
peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength";
"my torn and tattered past" [syn: shattered]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
tatteredTranslations
ragged and torn
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شڕوشاڵ
dressed in tatters
Verb
tattered- past of tatter
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, cleft, cloven, cracked, cut, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down-at-heel,
down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, grubby, holey, in pieces, in rags, in
shreds, in tatters, informal, lacerate, lacerated, loose, lumpen, mangled, messy, mussy, mutilated, negligent, patchy, poky, quartered, ragged, raggedy, ratty, rent, riven, ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, severed, shabby, shoddy, shredded, slack, slatternly, slipshod, slit, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, splintered, split, squalid, tacky, tatty, threadbare, torn, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy