tattered

Meanings

Adjective

• Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.
• Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
• Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.

Verb

• Past of tatter

Origin

• From Middle English tatered, tatird, from Old Norse. Originally, it was derived from the noun, but it was later reanalysed as a past participle (tatter + -ed), whereafter the verb came into being. Compare tatter.