Ratty

Quick meaning: Ratty is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.

More Meanings

1. Infested with rats.
2. In poor condition or repair.
3. Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
4. Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
5. Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).

Example Sentences

I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington.

He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him.

The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.

We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bed-quilt off the bed, […] and just as we were leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.

Word Forms

• rattier
• rattiest

Synonyms for ratty

Depending on context, synonyms include rattish, battered, tattered, tatty, torn, worn out.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moth-eaten, tatty, shabby, worn, measly, unkempt.

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