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in tatters

ADJECTIVE

ragged

Synonyms

STRONG

battered broken dilapidated disorganized fragmented frayed frazzled jagged mean notched patched rent rough serrated shredded torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn contemptible crude desultory dingy down-at-the-heel full of holes in holes in rags irregular moth-eaten poor poorly made rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tacky tattered tatty threadbare uneven unfinished unkempt unpressed worse for wear

Antonyms

STRONG

complete even fixed nice polite smooth

WEAK

kempt new

ADJECTIVE

raggedy

Synonyms

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds moth-eaten poorly made ragged ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tatterdemalion threadbare torn torn to pieces unkempt

ADJECTIVE

scraggly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bedraggled scruffy unkempt

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn dilapidated dingy dirty disheveled frayed frazzled full of holes grubby grungy messy moth-eaten shabby sloppy tacky tattered threadbare torn unclean uncombed ungroomed worse for wear

Antonyms

STRONGEST

kempt neat tidy

ADJECTIVE

tatterdemalion

Synonyms

STRONG

shoddy

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds moth-eaten poorly made ragged raggedy ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy threadbare torn torn to pieces unkempt

ADJECTIVE

tattered

Synonyms

STRONGEST

battered dilapidated frayed ripped shabby threadbare torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn broken frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds moth-eaten poorly made rugged scraggy seedy shaggy shoddy torn to pieces unkempt

Example Sentences

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He promised to create new “miner brigades” to incorporate wildcatters into a formal industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Pennsylvania was lousy with wildcatters, all of them convinced they’d struck it rich.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

I eyed the warning warily, but the veteran miner leading our group explained that it was a fiction of his own design, one meant to keep out vandals and wildcatters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Big Oil is hanging back, watching while wildcatters take on the risky exploratory work.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2023

Many wildcatters dug dry wells, or “dusters,” and scurried away in despair.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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