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. 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.
More similar words: scattered, shattered, tatter, littered, unfettered, pitter-patter, hatter, matter, latter, patter, platter, flatter, chatter, pattern, battery, shatter, clatter, scatter, splatter, slattern, flattery, squatter, no matter, a matter of, bespatter, altered, chattering, flattering, smattering, antimatter.