tatters
Clothing beyond repair
Tatters are torn, ragged pieces of cloth or clothing.
Something in tatters is badly torn or, figuratively, ruined: His reputation was in tatters after the scandal.
The singular tatter appears mainly in the phrase tattered and torn.
A person dressed in tatters wears worn-out, ragged clothes.
Torn cloth pieces
- shredsTorn-up fragments
- ribbonsNarrow fabric strips
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
- remnantsWhat stays after most goes
frayed · threadbare · torn · ripped · ragged · worn-out · moth-eaten · raggedy
Torn cloth pieces
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
impoverishment · hardship · squalor · ragamuffin · urchin · beggar · waif · pauper
rags
Torn cloth pieces
remnants · frayed · threadbare · torn · ripped · ragged · worn-out · moth-eaten · raggedy · patches
rags
Torn cloth pieces
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
deprivation · impoverishment · hardship · squalor · ragamuffin · urchin · beggar · waif · pauper · want
shreds
Torn-up fragments
remnants · wreckage · shambles · disarray · disrepair · rubble · debris · scraps · bits · strips
shreds
Torn-up fragments
fragments · wreckage · vestiges · traces · scraps · pieces · disarray · collapse · dissolution · disintegration
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
- junktrash, garbage, refuse, rubbish, waste
- castoffsdiscards, rejects, throwaways, hand-me-downs, hand-me-down
- scrapsbits, scraps, remnants, shards, trimmings
- textile artisansweavers, embroiderers, stitchers, needleworkers, knitters
- textile scrapsfabric scraps, lint, scraps, cuttings, clippings
tatterswhole
Full and undivided
intact · pristine · mint condition · wholeness · unblemished
- rags and tattersTorn, worn-out clothing fragments
- in tatters