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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cut open |
| Synonyms: | broken, burst, cleaved, cracked, damaged, divided, fractured, gashed, impaired, lacerated, mangled, ragged, rent, ripped, ruptured, severed, shabby, slashed, sliced, slit, snapped, split, wrenched |
| Antonyms: | fixed, healed, mended, perfect |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, rip an object |
| Synonyms: | break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, jigsaw, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rive, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move very fast |
| Synonyms: | boil, bolt, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, hurry, lash, race, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, zoom |
| Antonyms: | idle, wait |
| Main Entry: | asunder |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | apart; into pieces |
| Synonyms: | disconnected, disjoined, divided, in half, loose, separated, split, to shreds, torn |
| Antonyms: | together |
| Main Entry: | cleft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | separated, split |
| Synonyms: | broken, cloven, cracked, crannied, crenelated, parted, perforated, pierced, rent, riven, ruptured, separated, sundered, torn |
| Antonyms: | joined, joint, united |
| Main Entry: | on the fence |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undecided |
| Synonyms: | ambivalent, betwixt and between, blowing hot and cold, borderline, debatable, divided, hemming and hawing, hesitant, iffy, impartial, in the middle, indecisive, irresolute, neutral, not definite, not sure, of two minds, open, running hot and cold, tentative, torn, uncertain, unclear, uncommitted, undetermined, unsure, up in the air, waffling, wavering, wishy-washy |
| Main Entry: | ragged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn-out; in shreds |
| Synonyms: | badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, contemptible, crude, desultory, dilapidated, dingy, disorganized, down at the heel, fragmented, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in holes, in rags, in tatters, irregular, jagged, mean, moth-eaten, notched, patched, poor, poorly made, rent, rough, rugged, scraggy, seedy, serrated, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, shredded, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, uneven, unfinished, unkempt, unpressed, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | even, kempt, new, smooth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scraggly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ragged |
| Synonyms: | badly dressed, badly worn, bedraggled, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, disheveled, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, grubby, grungy, in tatters, messy, moth-eaten, scruffy, shabby, sloppy, tacky*, tattered, threadbare, torn, unclean, uncombed, ungroomed, unkempt, worse for wear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | run-down, dilapidated |
| Synonyms: | ailing, beat up, bedraggled, crummy, decaying, decrepit, dingy, dog-eared, down-at-the-heel, drooping, droopy, faded, flagging, frowzy, gone to seed, grubby, in a bad way, mangy, messy, neglected, old, overgrown, poor, poorly, ragged, ratty, sagging, scruffy, shabby, sickly, sleazy*, slovenly, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, torn, unkempt, untidy, unwell, used up, wilted, wilting, worn |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, nice, posh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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