Tatter \Tat"ter\, v. t. [p. p. Tattered.]
To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past
participle as an adjective.
[1913 Webster]
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "tattered":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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