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adjective
- 1. old and torn; in poor condition: "an old woman in tattered clothes"
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tattered | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˈtæt̬·ərd / Add to word list. (of cloth) damaged by continuous use or age, esp. torn in strips: old tattered flags. (Definition of tattered from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(of cloth) damaged by continuous use or age, esp. torn in strips: old tattered flags. (Definition of tattered from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of tattered adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If something such as clothing or a book is tattered, it is damaged or torn, especially because it has been used a lot over a long period of time.
The meaning of TATTERED is torn into shreds : ragged. How to use tattered in a sentence.
adjective. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing. “a man in a tattered shirt”. “the tattered flag”. “tied up in tattered brown paper”. “a tattered barefoot boy”. synonyms: tatterdemalion. worn. affected by wear; damaged by long use.
TATTERED definition: old and badly torn: . Learn more.
Tattered definition: torn to tatters; ragged. See examples of TATTERED used in a sentence.
1. If something such as clothing or a book is tattered, it is damaged or torn, especially because it has been used a lot over a long period of time. [...] 2. If you describe something as tattered, you mean that it has been badly damaged or has failed completely. [...] More. Synonyms of 'tattered' • torn, ripped, ragged, frayed [...] More.
I don't want you running around in tattered clothes. She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation. Beside him rode an hussar, with a boy in a tattered French uniform and blue cap behind him on the crupper of his horse.
