Another word for tattered | Synonyms for tattered

Another word for tattered

adjective

Torn into or marked by shreds or tatters:
ragged, raggedy, tatterdemalion. See better
Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect:
bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tatty, threadbare. (Informal) tacky². (Slang) ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed), past cure (or hope). See better

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Martha lugged out a tattered game of Monopoly.
I don't want you running around in tattered clothes.
Beside him rode an hussar, with a boy in a tattered French uniform and blue cap behind him on the crupper of his horse.
She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation.
Cynthia Dean kept pushing away all other thoughts from his tattered mind.

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