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Definitions for Tatty

[1] cheap or tawdry; vulgar: a tatty production of a Shakespearean play.
[2] shabby or ill-kempt; ragged; untidy: an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains.
[3] (in India) a screen, usually made of coarse, fragrant fibers, placed over a window or door and kept moistened with water in order to cool and deodorize the room.
[4] mainly British worn out, shabby, tawdry, or unkempt

Words related to Tatty

bedraggled, broken-down, crummy, decayed, decaying, decrepit, deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, disreputable, faded, mangy, moth-eaten, pitiful, poverty-stricken, ragged, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, run-down

Words nearby Tatty

tattler, tattletale, tattletale gray, tattoo, tattva, tatty, tatum, tatung, tau, tau cross, tau lepton

Origin of Tatty

2First recorded in 1785–95, tatty is from the Hindi word ṭaṭṭī

Other words from Tatty

tat·ti·ly , adverb
tat·ti·ness , noun

Word origin for Tatty

C16: of Scottish origin, probably related to Old English tættec a tatter

Synonyms for Tatty

all the worse for wear, bare, bedraggled, broken-down, crummy, cure, decayed, decaying, decrepit, degenerated, desolate, deteriorated, deteriorating, dilapidated, dingy, disfigured, disreputable, dog-eared, down-at-heel, faded, frayed, gone to seed, mangy, meager, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, pitiful, poor, pot, poverty-stricken, ragged, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, sleazy, slipshod, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, worn, worn-out, worse for wear, wretched