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 ]