ˈtad.ə(r)d, -atə- adjective
Etymology: Middle English tatered, from tater + -ed
1. : wearing ragged clothes
a tattered barefoot boy
2. : torn in shreds : ragged
going about in shirts which have become tattered shreds in their struggles — E.H.Spicer
a tattered book
3.
a. : broken-down , dilapidated
decaying houses along tattered paved streets — P.B.Martin
tattered cottages — Jane Austen
b. : disrupted, shattered
a tattered remnant of its former strength
tattered conventions