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tatty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tatty has 2 senses
- tatty(s = adj.all) moth-eaten, ratty, shabby - showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
- tatty(s = adj.all) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tawdry, trashy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Derived form noun tat1
CIDE DICTIONARY
tatty, n. [Hind. .].
A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tatty, adj. (tattier, tattiest) colloq.
1 tattered; worn and shabby.
2 inferior.
3 tawdry.
1 tattered; worn and shabby.
2 inferior.
3 tawdry.
Derivative
tattily adv. tattiness n.
Etymology
orig. Sc., = shaggy, app. rel. to OE t{aelig}ttec rag, TATTER
THESAURUS
tatty
base, common, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, mean, paltry, patchy, poor, ragged, raggedy, ratty, rubbishy, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tacky, tattered, torn, trashy
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