Usually means: Ragged; wearing worn and torn clothes.
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  1. tatterdemalion: Merriam-Webster
  2. tatterdemalion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tatterdemalion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tatterdemalion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tatterdemalion: Vocabulary.com
  6. tatterdemalion: Wordnik
  7. tatterdemalion: Wiktionary
  8. tatterdemalion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tatterdemalion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tatterdemalion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tatterdemalion: Dictionary.com
  12. tatterdemalion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tatterdemalion (comics), Tatterdemalion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tatterdemalion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tatterdemalion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tatterdemalion: Rhymezone
  17. tatterdemalion: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Tatterdemalion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tatterdemalion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tatterdemalion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tatterdemalion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. tatterdemalion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tatterdemalion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Tatterdemalion: World Wide Words
  25. Tatterdemalion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. tatterdemalion: Encyclopedia

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  1. tatterdemalion: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tatterdemalion)

▸ adjective:  Tattered.
▸ noun:  A person with tattered clothing.

Similar:
Ragamuffin, tatty, tattery, tattered, raggedy, ragged, tawdered, raggety, ragtag, tasseled, more...

Opposite:
immaculate, pristine, spotless, flawless

Adjectives:
little, filthy, eyed, wretched, such, old, poor, princely, irish, black, tall
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Similar:
Ragamuffin, tatty, tattery, tattered, raggedy, ragged, tawdered, raggety, ragtag, tasseled, more...

Opposite:
immaculate, pristine, spotless, flawless

Adjectives:
little, filthy, eyed, wretched, such, old, poor, princely, irish, black, tall



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