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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Torn into shreds; ragged.
  2. adj. Having ragged clothes; dressed in tatters.
  3. adj. Shabby or dilapidated.
  4. adj. Disordered or disrupted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Rent in tatters; torn; hanging in rags.
  2. Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
  3. Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged
  2. adj. dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
  3. adj. obsolete dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken
  4. v. Simple past tense and past participle of tatter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. ruined or disrupted
  2. adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing

Etymologies

  1. 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. (Wiktionary)

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