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say it: TAT-urd
tattered is an adjective meaning "worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing". It is pronounced /ˈtætɚd/ — TAT-urd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
“a tatterdemalion prince”
ruined or disrupted
“our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity”
“a tattered remnant of its former strength”
“my torn and tattered past”
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 tattered come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.