tatterdemalion :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (2)

ragamuffin, tatterdemalion

n. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

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Adjectives (9)

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. 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"

bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

Fuzzynyms (93)

waif, street child

n. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"

foundling, abandoned infant

n. a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown

street arab, gamin, throwaway

n. (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets

orphan

n. a young animal without a mother

stray

n. an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)

old

adj. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"

old-fashioned, outmoded

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

outdated, out-of-date, superannuated

adj. old; no longer valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"

old-time, quaint, olde worlde

adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

unkempt

adj. not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"

untidy

adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

worthless

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

gloomy, dismal, sorry

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

messy, mussy

adj. dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

low

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

adhesive

adj. tending to adhere

sticky

adj. covered with an adhesive material

creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone

adj. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. 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"

old

adj. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"

battered

adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

undried

adj. still wet or moist

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

adhesive

adj. tending to adhere

sticky

adj. covered with an adhesive material

Synonyms (53)

weather-beaten, weatherworn, weathered

adj. worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles"

attrited

adj. worn by rubbing or friction

battered

adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"

raddled, worn-out

adj. used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles"

creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone

adj. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

dog-eared, eared

adj. worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages"

eroded, scoured

adj. worn away as by water or ice or wind

vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy

adj. infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms

threadbare

adj. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

shopworn, shopsoiled

adj. worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"

waterworn

adj. (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water

well-worn

adj. showing signs of much wear or use

bent, crumpled, dented

adj. of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"

rent, blasted, ripped, torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

broken-backed

adj. having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse"

burned-out, burnt-out, burned out, burnt out

adj. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire: "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"; "a burned-out picture tube"

burst, ruptured

adj. suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"

corroded

adj. eaten away as by acid or oxidation

cracked, crackled, crazed

adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

marred, defaced

adj. having the surface damaged or disfigured

weakened

adj. made weak or weaker

knocked-out(a)

adj. damaged; "the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny"

mangled, mutilated

adj. (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text"