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Definition: Tattered |
TatteredAdjective1. 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". 2. Ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength"; "my torn and tattered past". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tattered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: TatteredSynonyms: shattered (adj), tatterdemalion (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tattered |
| English words defined with "tattered": Betorn ♦ frayed ♦ shattered ♦ tatterdemalion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tattered": translucent humic degradation matter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Beneath the tattered flag we'd made (Fortress Around Yur Heart; performing artist: Sting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Tattered Web (1971) The Tattered Dress (1957) Tattered Angel (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of an exploding star, ... Credit: NASA. |  | This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Civil war soldiers with tattered flag. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tattered billboard, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Tattered Wings" by Kris Kelley Commentary: "An aged yellow butterfly drinking from pink flowers." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sweat, the heat, his long walk, and the dust, added an indescribable meanness to his tattered appearance |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad could see it ahead of him, its poor branches curving over the way, its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken |
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Business | For rural risk pooling and insurance coverage, tattered, downgraded remnants of the Rural Cooperative Medical System remain. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tattered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Tattered" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 6.25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 5.56% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 144 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tattered": tattered and torn ♦ tattered old volume. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tattered": tattered-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tattered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i leckosur (frumpish, hole-in-the-wall, ragged, shabby, tatterdemalion), copë e çikë (ragged). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممزق (disrupted, indented, jagged, lacerate, lacerated, ragged, rent, riven, ruptured, shredded, torn), رث الثياب (ragged, tacky). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдран (jagged, jaggy, rent), одрипавял (dingy, ragged), парцалив (in rags, in tatters, ragged, shabby), дрипав (ragged, ratty, shabby, tatty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 褸 (soiled), 撕碎. (various references) | |
Czech | znièený (clapped out, kaput, ruined, uncreated), zmařený (frustrated), v salátovém vydání, v hadrech, rozedraný (ragged), potrhaný, otrhaný (shabby). (various references) | |
Dutch | aan flarden gescheurd. (various references) | |
Esperanto | disŝirita. (various references) | |
Finnish | ryysyinen (ragged), risainen (frayed, ragged, worn out), riekaleinen, repaleinen (ragged), rääsyinen (in rags, ragged). (various references) | |
French | en morceaux, en loques, en lambeaux, déguenillé, déchiré. (various references) | |
German | zerfetzte (frazzled, shredded). (various references) | |
Greek | κουρελιασμένοσ (ragged). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממועך (pressed, squeezed), ממורטט (ragged, shabby), מרופט (ragged, seedy, shabby, threadbare), לבוש בלואים, שחוק (crushed, derision, ground, laughter, mockery, pounded, ragged, tacky, worn), קרוע (ragged, Riven, torn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cafatos. (various references) | |
Italian | sbrindellato (in tatters). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 藍褸 (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), 襤褸 (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼろ (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), らんる (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes). (various references) | |
Manx | giubbylagh (disreputable, down-at-heel, ragged), fritlagagh (ragged). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atteredtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esfarrapado (in tatters, lacerated, ragged, shabby). (various references) | |
Romanian | ferfeniţos (torn). (various references) | |
Russian | оборванный (ragged, ragtag). (various references) | |
Scottish | luideagach, cearbach (awkward). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dronjav (ragged, tacky). (various references) | |
Spanish | andrajoso (ragged, ratty, shabby). (various references) | |
Swedish | trasig (broken, kaput, out of order, ragged, torn), söndertrasad. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งขาดรุ่งริ่ง (ragged). (various references) | |
Turkish | yırtık pırtık (ragged, shabby, tacky, tattered and torn, tatty), paramparça (all in bits, in pieces, tattered and torn), üstü başı dökülen (out at elbows). (various references) | |
Turkmen | eleюan (torn). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обірваний (ragged, tatty), знищений (obliterate), подраний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tả tơi ăn mặc rách rưới, rách nát, bị xé vụn. (various references) | |
Welsh | llarpiog (ragged), carpiog (ragged), bratiog (ragged). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pannosa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tattered": betattered. (additional references) | |
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"Tattered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Attreed, sattered, taltered, tatterd, tatterded, tetered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tattered" (pronounced ta"terd) |
| 4 | -a" t er d | battered, flattered, mattered, pattered, scattered, shattered, spattered, splattered. |
| 3 | -t er d | administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, cluttered, countered, cratered, custard, lettered, littered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flustered, fluttered, fostered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, martyred, mastered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, muttered, neutered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, sequestered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, splintered, sputtered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-r-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: treated. | |
-2 letters: derate, ratted, redate, retted, tarted, tatted, tatter, teared, teated, tetrad, tetter. | |
-3 letters: arete, dater, derat, deter, eared, eater, rated, tared, tater, tetra, trade, tread, treat, treed. | |
-4 letters: dare, dart, date, dear, deer, deet, dere, drat, dree, rate, read, rede, reed, rete, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, teed, trad, tree, tret. | |
-5 letters: are, art. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-r-t-t-t" | |
+2 letters: betattered. | |
+3 letters: reattempted. | |
+4 letters: reattributed, stouthearted, tetrahedrite, thermostated. | |
+5 letters: counterstated, interdigitate, retransmitted, tetartohedral, tetrahedrites, thermostatted. | |
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