ratty
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˈræti/
- Informal
:
raído
- There was an old, ratty armchair near the window, a sagging wood table beside it.
- ratty old
- ratty bathrobe
- ratty jeans
This little ratty T-shirt can save the day.
- This little ratty T-shirt can save the day.
- So you can't have cheap underwear, ratty underwear, cheap old bras.
- It was the rattiest, nastiest hole you've ever seen in your life.
- OK, I noticed this car, this old ratty car driving behind us a number of times.
- They don't get that thing where the blooms start to get like brown and real ratty looking.
- I've seen plants that are like nowhere near as nice as this or just like ratty and tatty or hardly variegated.
- You're in line at Walmart with your ratty old fleece sweatpants and these giant spider legs coming out of your eyes.
- He drives a ratty old limo and takes jobs in order to pay for illegal medications to keep Charles alive.
- But this is my natural hair now, like it's still a little bit ratty and I'm getting my extension spit again tomorrow, but natural hair length.
- It was the rattiest, nastiest all you've ever seen in your life.
- Want to get dirty, want to get dirty, want to get a little bit ratty.
- So we increase the rents and get rid of the bad cockroach tenants, the bad ratty tenants improve the rents.
- The field was plowed and muddy and dirty and it was like the mesh fence all the way around it all ratty rusty fence.
Examples
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The bed's sheets have been stripped and the ratty gray mattress has an enormous rust-red stain in the middle.
Fiction book (1991) -
She decided to get rid of her ratty old couch that had lost all its padding.
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Oh, it's a ratty old thing.
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OK, I noticed this car, this old ratty car driving behind us a number of times.
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So l threw out those old ratty ones and designed these myself.
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You know, it's probably time... ...for him to move on from that ratty old blanket anyway.
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This little ratty T-shirt can save the day.
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-She's just got this ratty old thing.
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Her hair was ratty and wild brown, tangled like a forgotten nest.
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Celia was at her desk in the somewhat ratty Pro Bono offices.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
33
2.5
Worn and in poor condition because of long use or little care
28
6.5
Worn and dirty, in bad condition
26
6.1
Looking dirty and run down and often linked to crime
23
4.6
Dark and dirty so it does not look bright
16
3.2
Old, torn clothes that are in poor condition
12
4.0
Something that looks worn, torn, and messy
9
4.8
Poor quality and likely to break quickly
4
6.0
Dirty and not good quality
4
7.0
Dirty and untidy, often wet after being in rain or mud
4
4.1
Old and torn clothes or fabric with loose threads
2
7.8
Old and in bad condition from use and poor care
2
8.4
Looks dirty and unpleasant, often like a shabby room or shop
2
6.0
Worn and in poor condition because of age or heavy use
1
4.8
Old clothing or fabric with small holes made by moths
1
9.9
Being dirty and unpleasant and of low quality
Appears torn or worn, like old clothes with holes
Dirty and messy, with things in the wrong places
Small and a little worn but with a cozy charm
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
1
4.0
A worn, shabby piece of warm clothing with holes that still keeps you warm
How Worn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ratty comes from rat plus the ending -y, so it originally meant 'like a rat'. Because rats live in dirty, worn places, ratty came to mean 'dirty, shabby, or worn out'.