ratty

Adjective

• Infested with rats; also, shabby, dilapidated, or irritable.
• of or characteristic of rats

Adjective Satellite

• showing signs of wear and tear
  • "a ratty old overcoat"
• dirty and infested with rats

Adj

• Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
• Infested with rats.
• In poor condition or repair.
• Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
• Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.

Noun

• Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).

Examples

• My rack was so RATTY, I almost gave up hope for a good play.

Synonyms

moth-eaten, shabby, tatty, PO'd, aggravated, agitated, angry, annoyed, atrabilious, bad-tempered, battered, bee in one's bonnet, bilious, bitchy, bothered, brainish, brassed off, browned off, cantankerous, carnaptious, cheesed off, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, exasperated, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, frustrated, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, have it in for, hissy, hold a grudge, hot and bothered, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irked, irritable, irritated, knock down ginger, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, peed off, peeved, peevish, pestered, pettish, petulant, pissed off, pissy, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raspy, rattish, ratty, shitty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, sore, splenetic, stressy, surly, tattered, teed off, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, ticked off, tired, torn, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, vexed, waspish, worn out

Related Words

RATTIER, RATTIEST

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