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ragtag

ragtag adjective: unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.

Adjective

ragtag (comparative more ragtag, superlative most ragtag)

  1. Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.
    • He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.
  2. Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components.
    • The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.

Noun

ragtag (plural ragtags)

  1. A shabby, unkempt person.
    • Near-synonym: ragbag
    • The small group of ragtags, who had followed him to the cave a day prior had arrived and kept a short distance away.2013, Casper Parks, Ages Past: The Isolation, page 258
    Synonyms:
    ragbag

ragtag meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu

ragtag in Hindi

ragtag, bobtail
चटिया-मटिया caṭiyā-maṭiyā

ragtag in Tamil

கும்பு

ragtag in Urdu

غیرمنظم, الٹا پلٹا

Synonyms of ragtag

All synonyms of ragtag

Forms of ragtag

Adjective
comparativemore ragtag
superlativemost ragtag
alternative formrag-tag
Noun
pluralragtags

Origin of ragtag

From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.

Questions about ragtag

What does ragtag mean?
Ragtag means unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.
What is ragtag in Hindi?
Ragtag in Hindi is चटिया-मटिया (caṭiyā-maṭiyā). See Ragtag meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ragtag?
Ragtag can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ragtag in the dictionary

  1. ragsorter's disease
  2. ragsorters
  3. ragsorting
  4. ragstone
  5. ragstones
  6. ragtag
  7. ragtag and bobtail
  8. ragtags
  9. ragtail
  10. ragtail and bobtail
  11. ragtails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ragtag (page history and authors); चटिया-मटिया (Hindi) (page history and authors); ragtag (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ragtag (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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