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frayed
adjective as in ragged
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adjective as in raggedy
adjective as in scraggly
adjective as in scrubby
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in shabby
Strongest matches
adjective as in tatterdemalion
adjective as in tattered
adjective as in tatty
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in worn
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in worn-out
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
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Example Sentences
Under the table, I could see that his combat boots were actually black sneakers, frayed at the seams.
The remaining 10 or so libraries hold frayed remains of ancient books on Quranic studies, science, and law.
Time will tell if the friendships frayed by this conflict will ever be repaired.
Instead, we have watched the bonds that hold Americans together become more frayed.
In this aqua blanket with its frayed edges I smelled home: warm laundry, bacon frying, coffee and cigarettes.
Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.
Let alone its being months behind the fashion, it was frayed around the bottom and the front breadth was sorely stained.
And MacRae's patience snapped like a frayed thread before many minutes of futile query.
On the tenth floor, he moved quickly down the frayed carpet of a corridor and found the service stairs.
He raised his frayed cap politely and asked whether she were Mademoiselle Orlebar.
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On this page you'll find 482 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frayed, such as: battered, broken, dilapidated, disorganized, fragmented, and frazzled.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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