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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Related Words

abrasive

  • abrading
  • aggravating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • biting
  • bothersome
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • burdensome
  • carking
  • caustic
  • chafing
  • cleanser
  • coarse
  • cutting
  • discomforting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • distractive
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • enraging
  • erosive
  • exasperating
  • frustrating
  • galling
  • grating
  • grinding
  • gritty
  • hard to take
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hurtful
  • importunate
  • importune
  • inconveniencing
  • infuriating
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jangling
  • jarring
  • maddening
  • mischievous
  • nasty
  • nettlesome
  • nettling
  • offensive
  • painful
  • peeving
  • pesky
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • pesty
  • plaguey
  • plaguy
  • polish
  • polishing
  • rankling
  • rebarbative
  • riling
  • rough
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • scratching
  • scuffing
  • sharp
  • sharpening
  • smoothing
  • spiky
  • spiny
  • stressful
  • thorny
  • tiresome
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • unpleasant
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • worrisome

babyish

  • adolescent
  • baby
  • boyish
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • childish
  • childlike
  • foolish
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • immature
  • infantile
  • innocent
  • jejune
  • juvenile
  • kid stuff
  • kiddish
  • naive
  • puerile
  • silly
  • simple
  • simplistic
  • sissy
  • sissyish
  • spoiled
  • unsophisticated

decaying

  • abandoned
  • abating
  • addling
  • atrophy
  • atrophying
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bombed-out
  • breaking down
  • breaking up
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • collapsing
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • crumbling
  • curdling
  • damaged
  • de-escalating
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debilitated
  • debilitating
  • debilitation
  • decadent
  • decay
  • decayed
  • declension
  • decline
  • declining
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degenerating
  • degeneration
  • degraded
  • degrading
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • descending
  • descent
  • desolate
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • deteriorating
  • deterioration
  • devolving
  • dilapidated
  • dilapidating
  • diminishing
  • dingy
  • disintegrating
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dog-eared
  • down-at-heel
  • down-at-heels
  • down-at-the-heel
  • down-at-the-heels
  • downsizing
  • drooping
  • dumpy
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • ebbing
  • effete
  • emaciating
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enfeeblement
  • eroding
  • exhaustion
  • fading
  • failing
  • falling
  • falling apart
  • falling to pieces
  • feeble
  • fermenting
  • festering
  • flagging
  • forlorn
  • fouling
  • frail
  • godforsaken
  • going
  • going to pot
  • going to seed
  • grungy
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • immoral
  • impaired
  • in ruins
  • injured
  • lagging
  • languid
  • languishing
  • lessening
  • limping
  • lowering
  • mangy
  • mean
  • miserable
  • moldering
  • molding
  • mortifying
  • moth-eaten
  • neglected
  • overrefined
  • overripe
  • oxidizing
  • perishing
  • polluting
  • precious
  • putrefying
  • rackety
  • ragged
  • ramshackle
  • rattletrap
  • ratty
  • receding
  • reducing
  • regressing
  • regression
  • relapse
  • retrograding
  • rickety
  • rotting
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • running down
  • running to seed
  • rusting
  • sagging
  • sapped
  • scrubby
  • scruffy
  • seedy
  • setback
  • shabby
  • sinking
  • sleazy
  • slipping
  • soft
  • souring
  • spoiling
  • tacky
  • tainting
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • tatty
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tumbledown
  • turning
  • turning off
  • undermining
  • unkept
  • waning
  • washed-up
  • wasted
  • wasting away
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weakening
  • wearing away
  • wearing out
  • wilting
  • wimpy
  • withering
  • worn-out
  • worsening
  • wrecked
  • yielding

dirty

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abusive
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bawdy
  • bedraggled
  • befoul
  • befouled
  • begrime
  • begrimed
  • below the belt
  • bemire
  • bemired
  • besmirch
  • besmirched
  • besoil
  • black
  • blacken
  • blackened
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blotch
  • blowy
  • blue
  • blur
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • breezy
  • bribable
  • broad
  • censurable
  • chaotic
  • cheap
  • cheating
  • cloudy
  • cluttered
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • coat
  • collied
  • colly
  • condemnable
  • confuse
  • confused
  • contaminate
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruptible
  • cowardly
  • craven
  • crock
  • crocked
  • crooked
  • cruddy
  • crude
  • cruel
  • crummy
  • currish
  • cutthroat
  • dastardly
  • daub
  • debase
  • debased
  • debasing
  • debauched
  • deceitful
  • defile
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demoralized
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dingy
  • disarrange
  • disarranged
  • disarray
  • disarrayed
  • discolor
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishevel
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dishonorably
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disreputable
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • distain
  • distasteful
  • double-dealing
  • draggle
  • draggled
  • dreggy
  • dungy
  • dusty
  • earthy
  • encrust
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • filthy
  • foggy
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fuliginous
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • gaum
  • germy
  • greasy
  • grime
  • grimy
  • gross
  • grotty
  • grubby
  • grungy
  • gunky
  • gusty
  • gutter
  • hack
  • hard-core
  • hateful
  • hazy
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ignobly
  • ignominious
  • illegal
  • illegally
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • immorally
  • impure
  • inclement
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • infamous
  • iniquitous
  • insanitary
  • jumble
  • jumbled
  • kinky
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • littered
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • louche
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • machiavellian
  • make dusty
  • make impure
  • mean
  • mercenary
  • mess
  • mess up
  • messed
  • messy
  • mire
  • miscreant
  • misty
  • muck
  • mucky
  • muddle
  • muddled
  • muddy
  • mung
  • murky
  • mussed
  • mussy
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • overcast
  • paltry
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • pollute
  • polluted
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • purchasable
  • racy
  • rainy
  • ratty
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reprobate
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • ribald
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rumpled
  • salacious
  • salty
  • scabby
  • scatological
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • shabby
  • shady
  • shameful
  • shifty
  • sinful
  • skanky
  • slatternly
  • sleazy
  • slimy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • smear
  • smirch
  • smoke
  • smudge
  • smudged
  • smutch
  • smutty
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • snowy
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • soil
  • soiled
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • soupy
  • spatter
  • spattered
  • spoil
  • spot
  • spotted
  • squalid
  • squally
  • stag
  • stain
  • stained
  • stormy
  • straggly
  • suggestive
  • sullied
  • sully
  • sunless
  • sweat
  • taint
  • tainted
  • tar
  • tarnish
  • tempestuous
  • temptable
  • trashy
  • turbulent
  • unacceptable
  • unbecoming
  • unchaste
  • unchivalrous
  • unclean
  • uncleaned
  • uncleanly
  • underhanded
  • underhandedly
  • undesirable
  • undusted
  • unethical
  • unethically
  • unfair
  • ungentlemanly
  • unhygienic
  • unjust
  • unkempt
  • unlaundered
  • unmoral
  • unpleasant
  • unprincipled
  • unprintable
  • unrighteous
  • unsanitary
  • unscrupulous
  • unsightly
  • unsportsmanlike
  • unsterile
  • unsterilized
  • unswept
  • untidy
  • untruthful
  • unwanted
  • unwashed
  • unwelcome
  • unworthy
  • venal
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vitiated
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warped
  • wicked
  • windblown
  • windswept
  • wretched
  • wrong
  • x-rated
  • yucky

galling

  • abrading
  • abrasive
  • acid
  • acute
  • afflicting
  • afflictive
  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • appalling
  • awful
  • bad
  • badgering
  • baiting
  • ballyragging
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bothering
  • bothersome
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • breaking down
  • breaking up
  • bugging
  • bullyragging
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • carking
  • chafing
  • chewing
  • corrading
  • corroding
  • cruel
  • decomposing
  • deviling
  • devilling
  • dire
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disintegrating
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • dissolving
  • distasteful
  • distractive
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • eating
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • erasing
  • eroding
  • exasperating
  • excoriating
  • excruciating
  • exercising
  • extreme
  • filing
  • flaying
  • fraying
  • frazzling
  • fretting
  • frosting
  • frustrating
  • getting
  • getting to
  • ghastly
  • gnawing
  • grating
  • grazing
  • grievous
  • grinding
  • griping
  • hagriding
  • harassing
  • harrowing
  • harrying
  • harsh
  • hassling
  • heartrending
  • heckling
  • honing
  • horrible
  • humiliating
  • hurtful
  • importunate
  • importune
  • incensing
  • inconveniencing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insufferable
  • insulting
  • insupportable
  • intense
  • intolerable
  • irking
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • itching
  • jangling
  • jarring
  • maddening
  • miffing
  • mischievous
  • miserable
  • nagging
  • narking
  • nasty
  • nettlesome
  • nettling
  • nibbling
  • offending
  • offensive
  • outraging
  • painful
  • peeling
  • peeving
  • persecuting
  • perturbing
  • pesky
  • pestering
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • pesty
  • piercing
  • piquing
  • plaguey
  • plaguing
  • plaguy
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rankling
  • rasping
  • rebarbative
  • reducing
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rotten
  • rousing
  • rubbing
  • rubbing out
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • sandblasting
  • sandpapering
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scuffing
  • severe
  • sharpening
  • shaving
  • skinning
  • spiny
  • spiting
  • stressful
  • teasing
  • terrible
  • thorny
  • tiresome
  • tormenting
  • torturous
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • unacceptable
  • unbearable
  • undoing
  • unendurable
  • unhinging
  • unpalatable
  • unsettling
  • unsupportable
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vile
  • wearing
  • wearing on
  • wearing out
  • whetting
  • worrisome
  • worrying
  • wretched

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