ratty

The word “ratty” has 2 syllables: rat-ty

It's pronounced as /ˈræti/


What is synonym and antonym for ratty?

In the thesaurus, “ratty” has 193 synonyms and 67 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ratty along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ratty

  • abandoned
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • argumentative
  • base
  • bearish
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bilious
  • blamable
  • bombed-out
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • cantankerous
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • choleric
  • combative
  • condemnable
  • contemptible
  • contentious
  • cowardly
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • craven
  • cross
  • cross-grained
  • crotchety
  • cruddy
  • curmudgeonly
  • damaged
  • dastardly
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decrepit
  • deplorable
  • desolate
  • despicable
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • deteriorating
  • detestable
  • dilapidated
  • dingy
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishonorable
  • disputatious
  • disreputable
  • dog-eared
  • dowdy
  • down-at-heel
  • down-at-heels
  • down-at-the-heel
  • down-at-the-heels
  • dumpy
  • dyspeptic
  • execrable
  • faded
  • fiery
  • forlorn
  • fractious
  • frayed
  • fretful
  • godforsaken
  • gone to seed
  • grouchy
  • grubby
  • grumpy
  • grungy
  • harmed
  • hateful
  • holey
  • hot-blooded
  • huffy
  • hurt
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ill-humored
  • ill-natured
  • ill-tempered
  • impaired
  • injured
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • lacerate
  • lacerated
  • lame
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • low
  • mangy
  • mean
  • miserable
  • moth-eaten
  • nasty
  • neglected
  • odious
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • old
  • ornery
  • out of humor
  • out of sorts
  • paltry
  • passionate
  • patchy
  • peevish
  • perverse
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • pouty
  • prickly
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • rackety
  • ragged
  • raggedy
  • ramshackle
  • raspy
  • rattletrap
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rickety
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • scabby
  • scrappy
  • scrubby
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • seedy
  • sensitive
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • short
  • short-tempered
  • shredded
  • sleazy
  • snappish
  • snappy
  • snarky
  • snarly
  • sneaking
  • snippety
  • snippy
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • squalid
  • stuffy
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • surly
  • tacky
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • tatty
  • testy
  • tetchy
  • thin-skinned
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • tumbledown
  • unethical
  • unkempt
  • unkept
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • vile
  • waspish
  • worn
  • worn-out
  • wrecked
  • wretched

Antonyms for ratty

  • admirable
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • brand-new
  • cared-for
  • carefree
  • commendable
  • companionable
  • cordial
  • creditable
  • easygoing
  • ethical
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • forbearing
  • fresh
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gregarious
  • happy-go-lucky
  • high-minded
  • honest
  • honorable
  • kept-up
  • laudable
  • long-suffering
  • maintained
  • mended
  • meritorious
  • moral
  • new
  • noble
  • obliging
  • outgoing
  • patched
  • patient
  • praiseworthy
  • principled
  • rebuilt
  • reconstructed
  • redoubtable
  • relaxed
  • reputable
  • right
  • right-minded
  • righteous
  • scrupulous
  • smart
  • sociable
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • spiffy
  • spruce
  • stoic
  • stoical
  • sweet
  • tolerant
  • uncomplaining
  • understanding
  • unused
  • upright
  • virtuous
  • well-disposed

Meanings of ratty

  • adjective
    1. Similar to a rat; ratlike.
    2. Infested with rats.
    3. In poor condition or repair.
    4. Irritable, annoyed, bad-tempered.

Example Sentences

  • The old coat looked ratty, but it kept him warm during the winter.
  • She complained about the ratty condition of the furniture in the hotel room.
  • His ratty hair was unkempt after a long day of work.
  • The ratty blanket had holes in it from years of use.
  • He finally threw out the ratty shoes that were falling apart.

On this page you'll find 260 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ratty, such as: abandoned, abhorrent, abominable, admirable, affable, agreeable, amiable.

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lacerate

  • amputate
  • anatomize
  • broken-down
  • bruise
  • butcher
  • carve
  • chip
  • chisel
  • chop
  • claw
  • cleave
  • crosscut
  • cut off
  • decrepit
  • dice
  • dilapidated
  • dingy
  • dissect
  • dog-eared
  • dowdy
  • faded
  • frayed
  • gash
  • gore
  • grungy
  • hack
  • hacksaw
  • haggle
  • harm
  • holey
  • hurt
  • incise
  • injure
  • jag
  • lance
  • maim
  • mangle
  • mangy
  • mince
  • moth-eaten
  • mutilate
  • notch
  • patchy
  • pierce
  • puncture
  • ragged
  • raggedy
  • ratty
  • rend
  • rip
  • rive
  • run-down
  • saw
  • scissor
  • score
  • scruffy
  • scuzzy
  • section
  • seedy
  • serrate
  • sever
  • shabby
  • shear
  • shredded
  • slash
  • slice
  • slit
  • split
  • stab
  • tacky
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • tear
  • threadbare
  • torment
  • torture
  • worn-out
  • wound

sagging

  • abating
  • abject
  • ailing
  • all torn up
  • atrabilious
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bent
  • biconcave
  • billowing
  • black
  • bleak
  • blob
  • bottomward
  • bowed
  • bowing
  • breaking down
  • broody
  • bulging
  • bummed out
  • bump
  • bunch
  • bunching
  • burst
  • cascading
  • cast down
  • cheerless
  • clouded
  • collapsing
  • contracted
  • contracting
  • convexity
  • crestfallen
  • crummy
  • crumpling
  • cupped
  • dampened
  • dangling
  • dashed
  • de-escalating
  • decaying
  • declined
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrepit
  • degenerating
  • dented
  • depreciating
  • depressed
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • descending
  • despondent
  • deteriorating
  • dilation
  • diminishing
  • dimpled
  • dingy
  • dipped
  • dipping
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • distention
  • dog-eared
  • doleful
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • down-at-the-heel
  • downcast
  • downgrade
  • downhearted
  • downhill
  • downward
  • dragged
  • drained
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying down
  • earthward
  • ebbing
  • emaciating
  • empty
  • enervated
  • excavated
  • excess
  • excrescence
  • exhausted
  • faded
  • fading
  • fading away
  • failing
  • falling
  • fatigued
  • flabby
  • flaccid
  • flagging
  • flexuous
  • floppy
  • frowzy
  • gibbosity
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • going
  • gone to seed
  • gravitating
  • groundward
  • growth
  • grubby
  • hanging
  • heavy-hearted
  • hollow
  • hollowed
  • hump
  • hung
  • hurting
  • ill-fitting
  • in a bad way
  • in the pits
  • inclining
  • incurvate
  • incurvated
  • incurved
  • indented
  • inferior
  • intumescence
  • irresilient
  • jut
  • kaput
  • lagging
  • languid
  • languishing
  • languorous
  • lassitudinous
  • lax
  • leaden
  • lessening
  • lethargic
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • limp
  • listless
  • lolling
  • loose
  • losing momentum
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lowering
  • lump
  • mangy
  • melancholy
  • messy
  • miserable
  • moderating
  • moody
  • mopey
  • mopish
  • morose
  • narrowing
  • neglected
  • nether
  • nodding
  • nodulation
  • nodule
  • old
  • out of condition
  • out of shape
  • outgrowth
  • outthrust
  • overgrown
  • oversize
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pendulous
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • poor
  • poorly
  • pouch
  • precipitating
  • projection
  • prominence
  • promontory
  • protrusion
  • protuberance
  • punctured
  • quieting
  • ragged
  • ratty
  • receding
  • relaxed
  • relenting
  • roomy
  • rotting
  • round
  • rounded
  • running down
  • rusty
  • sac
  • sad
  • saggy
  • salience
  • scooped
  • scruffy
  • shabby
  • shapeless
  • shot down
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • shrunken
  • sickly
  • sinking
  • slack
  • slackening
  • slacking
  • sleazy
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • sloppy
  • slouching
  • slouchy
  • slovenly
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • soft
  • softening
  • spiritless
  • squalid
  • stooped
  • stooping
  • subjacent
  • subsiding
  • sunken
  • superfluity
  • suspended
  • swagging
  • swelling
  • tacky
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • tattered
  • tender
  • threadbare
  • tired
  • tiring
  • to the bottom
  • toneless
  • torn
  • tuberosity
  • tumefaction
  • tumor
  • under
  • underneath
  • unfit
  • unkempt
  • unshapely
  • untidy
  • unwell
  • used-up
  • waning
  • wart
  • wasting
  • weak
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • wearing out
  • weeping
  • wilted
  • wilting
  • withering
  • woebegone
  • worn
  • wretched
  • yielding

tacky

  • abandoned
  • adherent
  • adhesive
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bombed-out
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • clingy
  • coarse
  • common
  • crude
  • damaged
  • decaying
  • decrepit
  • desolate
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • deteriorating
  • dilapidated
  • dingy
  • dog-eared
  • dowdy
  • down-at-heel
  • down-at-heels
  • down-at-the-heel
  • down-at-the-heels
  • dumpy
  • faded
  • flashy
  • forlorn
  • frumpy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gelatinous
  • glitzy
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • godforsaken
  • gone to seed
  • gooey
  • graceless
  • grotesque
  • grungy
  • gummy
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • inappropriate
  • incorrect
  • inelegant
  • inferior
  • injured
  • junky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • loud
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • mangy
  • mean
  • messy
  • miserable
  • moth-eaten
  • nasty
  • neglected
  • ostentatious
  • out-of-date
  • outmoded
  • overdone
  • pitchy
  • poky
  • rackety
  • ragged
  • ramshackle
  • rattletrap
  • ratty
  • rickety
  • ropey
  • ropy
  • ruined
  • run down
  • run-down
  • scrubby
  • scruffy
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • splashy
  • sticky
  • stodgy
  • styleless
  • syrupy
  • tarry
  • tasteless
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • tatty
  • tawdry
  • tenacious
  • threadbare
  • ticky-tack
  • ticky-tacky
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • trashy
  • tumbledown
  • unbecoming
  • unfashionable
  • unkempt
  • unkept
  • unrefined
  • unseemly
  • unstylish
  • unsuitable
  • untidy
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • vulgar
  • worn-out
  • wrecked
  • wrong

lame

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • bang
  • base
  • bash
  • bastard
  • batter
  • beat
  • below par
  • belt
  • blamable
  • bludgeon
  • box
  • break
  • bruise
  • bruised
  • brutal
  • buffet
  • bum
  • bung up
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • coarse
  • common
  • condemnable
  • contemptible
  • counterfeit
  • cowardly
  • crappy
  • craven
  • cripple
  • cruddy
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damnable
  • dastardly
  • defective
  • deficient
  • deplorable
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • disable
  • disabled
  • disastrous
  • discreditable
  • disfigure
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishonorable
  • dismember
  • disreputable
  • dissatisfactory
  • dreadful
  • drub
  • egregious
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faltering
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • flabby
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • flimsy
  • flog
  • from hunger
  • game
  • gimpy
  • gnarly
  • gore
  • gross
  • grubby
  • halt
  • hammer
  • hamstring
  • harm
  • hateful
  • hit
  • hobble
  • hobbling
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hurt
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ill
  • impair
  • impaired
  • inadequate
  • incapacitate
  • ineffective
  • inefficient
  • inferior
  • injure
  • injured
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • kill
  • kneecap
  • lace
  • lacerate
  • lacking
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lesser
  • lick
  • limping
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • maim
  • mangle
  • maul
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • murder
  • mutilate
  • nasty
  • niggardly
  • odious
  • off
  • pained
  • paltry
  • paralyze
  • paste
  • pathetic
  • pelt
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • pommel
  • poor
  • pound
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punk
  • ratty
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scabby
  • scanty
  • scar
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • slap
  • sleazy
  • smack
  • smash
  • sneaking
  • sock
  • sordid
  • sore
  • sorry
  • sour
  • spank
  • spare
  • squalid
  • stiff
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • swat
  • swipe
  • terrible
  • thin
  • thrash
  • thump
  • thwack
  • torment
  • torture
  • trashy
  • unacceptable
  • unconvincing
  • under par
  • unethical
  • unpersuasive
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unscrupulous
  • unspeakable
  • unsuitable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wallop
  • wanting
  • weak
  • whack
  • whip
  • wing
  • worthless
  • wound
  • wretched
  • wrong

nasty

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • abusive
  • aching
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • afflictive
  • aggravating
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • barbarous
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • below the belt
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blackened
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • bleeding
  • blowy
  • blue
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • brackish
  • breezy
  • broad
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • catchy
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • chafing
  • chaotic
  • cheap
  • chilling
  • cloudy
  • cluttered
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • collied
  • complex
  • complicated
  • condemnable
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • corrupt
  • cowardly
  • cramping
  • crappy
  • craven
  • critical
  • crocked
  • cruddy
  • crude
  • cruel
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • currish
  • damaging
  • dastardly
  • daunting
  • debased
  • debasing
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • deleterious
  • delicate
  • demanding
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • deprecating
  • derogatory
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devious
  • difficult
  • dingy
  • dire
  • direful
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • disarranged
  • disarrayed
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discommoding
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • discreditable
  • disdainful
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • dishonorable
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • dismaying
  • disordered
  • disparaging
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dodgy
  • down and dirty
  • draggled
  • dread
  • dreadful
  • dusty
  • earthy
  • enflamed
  • envious
  • evil
  • exacting
  • exceptionable
  • excruciating
  • execrable
  • exhausting
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • festering
  • fierce
  • filthy
  • foggy
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • foul
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • fuliginous
  • fulsome
  • galling
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • germy
  • ghastly
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • greasy
  • grewsome
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grimy
  • grisly
  • gross
  • grotty
  • grubby
  • gruesome
  • grungy
  • gunky
  • gusty
  • gutter
  • hair-raising
  • hairy
  • harassing
  • hard
  • hard-core
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazy
  • heinous
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • illegal
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • importunate
  • improper
  • impure
  • inclement
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • infamous
  • inflamed
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • injurious
  • insanitary
  • intimidating
  • intricate
  • invidious
  • involved
  • irritating
  • itching
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jumbled
  • kinky
  • knotty
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • licentious
  • littered
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • louche
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • malodorous
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • mephitic
  • messed
  • messy
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • misty
  • monstrous
  • mucky
  • muddled
  • muddy
  • murderous
  • murky
  • mussed
  • mussy
  • nagging
  • naughty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • outrageous
  • overcast
  • painful
  • paltry
  • pernicious
  • persecutive
  • persecutory
  • perturbing
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • pinching
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poison
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • prickly
  • problem
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • profane
  • racy
  • rainy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • ratty
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • recondite
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • ribald
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rumpled
  • ruthless
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scabby
  • scabrous
  • scandalous
  • scary
  • scathing
  • scatological
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • seamy
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • skanky
  • sleazy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • smarting
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • snakelike
  • sneaking
  • snide
  • snotty
  • snowy
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • soiled
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sore
  • sorry
  • soupy
  • sour
  • spiny
  • spiteful
  • squalid
  • squally
  • stag
  • stained
  • sticky
  • stinging
  • stinking
  • stormy
  • stressful
  • stubborn
  • sucky
  • suggestive
  • sullied
  • sunless
  • swollen
  • tainted
  • tempestuous
  • tender
  • terrible
  • terrifying
  • thorny
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • torturous
  • touchy
  • tough
  • trashy
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • troublous
  • turbulent
  • ugly
  • unacceptable
  • unappetizing
  • unbecoming
  • unchivalrous
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • unclean
  • uncleaned
  • uncleanly
  • uncongenial
  • undesirable
  • unethical
  • unfair
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unjust
  • unkempt
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unprintable
  • unrighteous
  • unsanitary
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • unsportsmanlike
  • unsterile
  • unsterilized
  • untidy
  • unwanted
  • unwashed
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • unworthy
  • upsetting
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • wicked
  • windblown
  • windswept
  • worrisome
  • wounding
  • wretched
  • wrong
  • yucky
  • yukky

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