adj
Meaning 1
Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rattish
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ratty
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹæti/
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General-American: /ˈɹæti/
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General-American: [-ɾi]
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rhymes with -æti
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CMU ARPABET: R AE1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Infested with rats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
In poor condition or repair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: battered, tattered, tatty, torn, worn out
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, figuratively, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: annoyed, angry, aggravated, agitated, bothered, exasperated, frustrated, irritable, irritated, irked, peeved, pestered, pissy, ratty, shitty, sore, tired, vexed, bee in one's bonnet, have it in for, hot and bothered, hold a grudge, brassed off, browned off, cheesed off, peed off, pissed off, PO'd, teed off, ticked off, atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grumpy, grotchy, grouchy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, liverish, out of sorts, ornery (chiefly US)}, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, querulous, raspy, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, volatile, waspish
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: knock down ginger
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
of or characteristic of rats
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
dirty and infested with rats
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
showing signs of wear and tear
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a ratty old overcoat
- shabby furniture
- an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From rat + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Romanian: șobolănos — similar to a rat — see also ratlike
- Russian: крыси́ный (krysínyj) — similar to a rat — see also ratlike