Overview of noun tatterdemalion

The noun tatterdemalion has 1 sense

• ragamuffin, tatterdemalion -- (a dirty shabbily clothed urchin)

Overview of adj tatterdemalion

The adj tatterdemalion has 2 senses

• tattered, tatterdemalion -- (worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince")


• bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down -- (in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack")