Synonyms for tattered
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Ratty — dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
ratty, bedraggled, unkempt, scruffy, shabby, mangy, dowdy, rag-tag, tacky, slovenly, frumpy, sloppy, sluttish, slatternly, draggled, untidy
2. Ragged — dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken
ragged, beat-up, torn, broken-down, worn, dilapidated, run-down, seedy, ruinous, tatterdemalion, ramshackle, derelict
Definitions
- adj. 1
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
- adj. 2
Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
Related words
- Word family
- tatteredness tatty tatterdemalion
Example sentences
- scruffy He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
- unkempt He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
- ratty I felt out of place with my ratty pants and wrinkled shirt.
- bedraggled The bedraggled houses were finally destroyed by the platoon.
- shattered Yanni's rear window shattered into a million pieces.
- raggedy The circumstances were raggedy.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| tattered | rising | |
| scruffy | rising | |
| unkempt | rising | |
| ratty | rising | |
| bedraggled | rising | |
| shattered | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- worn1, torn1
- 5 letters
- tacky2, seedy2, ratty2, dowdy2, mangy2
- 6 letters
- sloppy2, shabby2, ragged2, untidy3, frumpy2
- 7 letters
- scruffy2, ruinous3, unkempt2, raggedy3
- 8 letters
- derelict3, slovenly3, sluttish, draggled
- 9 letters
- shattered2
- 10 letters
- ramshackle3, bedraggled3, slatternly
- 11 letters
- dilapidated5
- 14 letters
- tatterdemalion
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).