[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tatter \tat"ter\, v. t. p. p. tattered.
   to rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past
   participle as an adjective.
   1913 webster

         where waved the tattered ensigns of ragfair. --pope.
   1913 webster
see also:
tattered 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tattered
     adj 1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man
            in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in
            tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a
            tatterdemalion prince" syn: tatterdemalion
     2: ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and
        prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength";
        "my torn and tattered past" syn: shattered
see also:
tatterdemalion shattered 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

76 moby thesaurus words for "tattered":
   beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, cleft,
   cloven, cracked, cut, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down-at-heel,
   down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frayed,
   frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, grubby, holey,
   in pieces, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, informal, lacerate,
   lacerated, loose, lumpen, mangled, messy, mussy, mutilated,
   negligent, patchy, poky, quartered, ragged, raggedy, ratty, rent,
   riven, ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, severed,
   shabby, shoddy, shredded, slack, slatternly, slipshod, slit,
   sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, splintered, split, squalid,
   tacky, tatty, threadbare, torn, unkempt, unneat, unsightly,
   untidy

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