Synonyms and Antonyms of ratty
- some ratty old magazines were the only reading material in the mountaintop cabin
beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels (or down-at-heel), dumpy, grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, threadbare, timeworn, tumbledown
- can I use this ratty old T-shirt to wipe up some paint?
dowdy, scruffy, tatterdemalion
lacerate (or lacerated), shredded
broken-down, decrepit, dilapidated, dog-eared, grungy, mangy, moth-eaten, run-down, scuzzy [slang], tacky
brand-new, new, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), unused
- I get pretty ratty after hours of dealing with demanding customers
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color (or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surly
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent