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tattered

adjective

1 tattered

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.

synonym: tatterdemalion.

2 tattered

Ruined or disrupted:
— A tattered remnant of its former strength.
— My torn and tattered past.

synonym: shattered.


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 ... show more.

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