tattered
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English tatered, tatird, from tatter + -ed. Originally it was derived from the noun, but later it was treated as a past participle implying a verb. Compare tatter.
Adjective [edit]
tattered (not comparable)
- rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
- (obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken
Translations [edit]
ragged and torn
Verb [edit]
tattered
- simple past tense and past participle of tatter
References [edit]
- tattered in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “tattered” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.