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tatterly

tatterly adjective: tattered.

Adjective

tatterly (comparative more tatterly, superlative most tatterly)

  1. Tattered.
    • […] and then impudently sending them in such tatterly rags a begging to your worship.1841, Stephen Jordan Rigaud, Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, page 354

Adverb

tatterly (comparative more tatterly, superlative most tatterly)

  1. In a tattered fashion.
    • […] a tatterly dressed black fiddler […]2013, Judith A. Barter, Annelise K. Madsen, Sarah Kelly Oehler, Art and Appetite, page 95

Forms of tatterly

Adjective
comparativemore tatterly
superlativemost tatterly
Adverb
comparativemore tatterly
superlativemost tatterly

Questions about tatterly

What does tatterly mean?
Tatterly means tattered.
What part of speech is tatterly?
Tatterly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near tatterly in the dictionary

  1. tatteredly
  2. tatteredness
  3. tatterer
  4. tatterers
  5. tattering
  6. tatterly
  7. tatters
  8. tattersall
  9. tattersalls
  10. Tattershall
  11. tatterwallop

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