tattered
adjective
1. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
- a man in a tattered shirt
- the tattered flag
- tied up in tattered brown paper
Similar word(s): worn, tatterdemalion
2. ruined or disrupted
- a tattered remnant of its former strength
- my torn and tattered past
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of tatter