tattily

1. 1.

   in a cheap manner

   “a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar”

   Synonymscheaplyinexpensively

Questions about tattily

What does tattily mean?

tattily means "in a cheap manner".

How many syllables are in tattily?

tattily has 3 syllables: tat-ti-ly. The stress falls on "tat".

What is another word for tattily?

Close synonyms include cheaply, inexpensively. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tattily a common word?

tattily is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.