Words that rhyme with tattered

  • battered
    adj 1: damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford" [syn: battered, beat-up, beaten-up] 2: damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat" 3: exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"
  • gathered
    adj 1: brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: collected, gathered] [ant: uncollected, ungathered]
  • haggard
    adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard]
  • laggard
    adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey] n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke]
  • placard
    n 1: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card] v 1: post in a public place 2: publicize or announce by placards [syn: placard, bill]
  • scabbard
    n 1: a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
  • scattered
    adj 1: occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages" 2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
  • shattered
    adj 1: ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength"; "my torn and tattered past" [syn: shattered, tattered]
  • spattered
    adj 1: covered with bright patches (often used in combination); "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: dabbled, spattered, splashed, splattered]
  • splattered
    adj 1: covered with bright patches (often used in combination); "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: dabbled, spattered, splashed, splattered]
  • tapered
    adj 1: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs" [syn: tapered, tapering, narrowing]
  • catered
  • chattered
  • clattered
  • flattered
  • lacquered
  • mattered
  • pattered
  • staggered
  • attard

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