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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

shabby or unkempt, in bad condition;

e.g. She had ratty brown hair and clear blue eyes.

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Similar Words

At

Beat-up

Bombed-out

Brooding

Cheap

Choleric

Contemptible

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Cross-grained

Crotchety

Deplorable

Despicable

Dilapidated

Dirty

Dog-eared

Down-at-the-heels

Dumpy

Fiery

Fretful

Grouchy

Grubby

Grumpy

Grungy

Hypersensitive

Irascible

Irritable

Lame

Lousy

Mangy

Mean

Miserable

Moth-eaten

Nasty

Neglected

Oversensitive

Paltry

Peevish

Perverse

Petulant

Pitiable

Pitiful

Prickly

Quick-tempered

Ragged

Raggedy

Ramshackle

Raspy

Rattletrap

Rickety

Rundown

Scabby

Scrubby

Scruffy

Scurvy

Seedy

Shabby

Short-tempered

Sleazy

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Sneaking

Snippety

Snippy

Sorry

Squalid

Stroppy

Stuffy

Supersensitive

Tatterdemalion

Tattered

Tatty

Tempered

Testy

The

Threadbare

Timeworn

Tumbledown

Wasp

Waspish

Worn-out

Wretched

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Opposite Words

Affable

Agreeable

Amiable

Carefree

Companionable

Cordial

Easygoing

Ethical

Extroverted

Fresh

Friendly

Good

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gregarious

Happy-go-lucky

High-minded

Honest

Honorable

Long-suffering

Moral

Noble

Obliging

Outgoing

Patient

Principled

Redoubtable

Relaxed

Reputable

Right

Right-minded

Righteous

Scrupulous

Sociable

Spick-and-span

Spiffy

Spruce

Stoic

Sweet

Tolerant

Uncomplaining

Understanding

Upright

Virtuous

Well-disposed

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Related Words

Abandoned

Abhorrent

Abominable

Argumentative

Base

Bearish

Bedraggled

Bellicose

Belligerent

Bilious

Broken

Broken-down

Cantankerous

Censurable

Combative

Contentious

Cowardly

Craven

Cross-grained

Dastardly

Decrepit

Desolate

Detestable

Dilapidated

Dingy

Disagreeable

Discreditable

Disgraceful

Disgusting

Dishonorable

Disputatious

Disreputable

Dog-eared

Dowdy

Execrable

Faded

Forlorn

Fractious

Fretful

Glum

Godforsaken

Grungy

Hateful

Holey

Hot-blooded

Huffy

Hurt

Ignoble

Ignominious

Ill-humored

Ill-natured

Ill-tempered

Impaired

Lacerate

Loathsome

Low

Mangy

Moth-eaten

Odious

Off-color

Ornery

Passionate

Patchy

Pouty

Pugnacious

Quarrelsome

Querulous

Ragged

Ramshackle

Rattletrap

Reprehensible

Reptilian

Repugnant

Repulsive

Revolting

Rickety

Scruffy

Sensitive

Shabby

Shameful

Short

Shredded

Sordid

Squalid

Sulky

Sullen

Surly

Tatterdemalion

Tattered

Tetchy

Thin-skinned

Ticklish

Tired

Touchy

Truculent

Unethical

Unprincipled

Unscrupulous

Vile

Worn-out

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