'Tattered' definitions:
Definition of 'tattered'
From: WordNet
adjective
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: tattered, tatterdemalion]
adjective
Ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength"; "my torn and tattered past" [syn: shattered, tattered]
Definition of 'Tattered'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'tattered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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