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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tatterdemalion is an adjective and noun meaning "worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing". It carries 3 recorded senses.
in deplorable condition
“a street of bedraggled tenements”
“a broken-down fence”
“a ramshackle old pier”
“a tumble-down shack”
a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tatterdemalion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.