Tattered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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