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ratty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ratty has 3 senses
- ratty(a = adj.pert) Array - of or characteristic of rats; Array
- ratty(s = adj.all) moth-eaten, shabby, tatty - showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
- ratty(s = adj.all) Array - dirty and infested with rats; Array Derived form noun rat1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ratty, adj. (rattier, rattiest)
1 relating to or infested with rats.
2 colloq. irritable or angry.
3 colloq. wretched, nasty.
1 relating to or infested with rats.
2 colloq. irritable or angry.
3 colloq. wretched, nasty.
Derivative
rattily adv. rattiness n.
THESAURUS
ratty
angry, annoyed, beset, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, dirty, disagreeable, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, greasy, grubby, holey, impatient, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, infested, irritable, irritated, lousy, matted, mouselike, mousy, patchy, pedicular, pediculous, peppery, plagued, ragged, raggedy, ravaged, rodent, rodential, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short-tempered, straggly, tacky, tattered, tatty, teeming, testy, tetchy, torn, touchy, unkempt, verminous, wormy
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