Synonym: frazzled, ragged, seedy, shabby, shoddy, tacky, torn. Similar words: scattered, shattered, tatter, littered, unfettered, pitter-patter, hatter, matter. Meaning: ['tætə(r)d] 
adj. 1. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing 2. ruined or disrupted.
adj. 1. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing 2. ruined or disrupted. 
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91, But as they approach the vessel in distress, they saw an ancient galleon with tattered sails.
92, He wore a tattered coat with holes in the elbows.
93, Pythagoras believed the souls of poets passed into swans, a fitting entombment that turns the tattered phrase "poetry in motion" into a truly lyrical trope.
94, David was a small boy with messy brown hair and tattered clothes.
95, I change my dress for her night after night, leaving the tattered cumber of the old in the wayside inns when the day dawns.
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