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 ]

ruined or disrupted; our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity; a tattered remnant of its former strength; my torn and tattered past

[ Syn: shattered ]