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Synonyms for tatty

  • adjective
  • noun

Most common

cheap tacky garish tawdry

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Tacky

tacky, cheap, tawdry, garish, gaudy, trashy, cheesy, flashy, brassy, loud, flash, meretricious, gimcrack, shoddy, crappy vulgar informal US CA

2. Ratty

ratty, shabby, moth-eaten

Noun

spud, tater

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.

    The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.

  2. n. 1

    A potato.

Related words

Phrases
tatty cake tatty scone tatty bye

Forms

Plural
tatties → spuds, taters…

Example sentences

  • cheap It is cheap, but on the other hand it is not good.
  • tacky I don't like boxer shorts very much. They're tacky.
  • garish The film is a simple story cloaked in garish splendour.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
tattyrising
cheaprising
tackyrising
garishrising
tawdryrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
loud1, spud1
5 letters
cheap1, flash1, tacky2, gaudy2, tater2, ratty2
6 letters
cheesy2, crappy2, shabby2, flashy2, trashy2, shoddy2, garish2, tawdry2, brassy2
8 letters
gimcrack
12 letters
meretricious

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).