Synonyms of holey

holey

adjective

as in shredded

Related Words

• shredded
• patchy
• dilapidated
• mangy
• decrepit
• dingy
• tacky
• faded
• lacerate
• grungy
• scruffy
• scuzzy
• broken-down
• dog-eared
• frayed
• tattered
• raggedy
• moth-eaten
• dowdy
• shabby
• run-down
• ragged
• seedy
• ratty
• threadbare
• worn-out
• tatterdemalion

Dissimilar Words

• new
• unused
• brand-new
• spick-and-span

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of holey

Don’t donate moldy, ripped, or holey shoes or pairs with no structure. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2026

That’s thanks to a quirk of South Florida’s geology, where the entire region is perched on holey rock that does little to stop the rise of groundwater, which Sukop’s research has shown is rising on pace with sea level. — Susan Merriam, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2025

But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey. — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021

In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb. — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 26 July 2019

This part happens fast, but the gist is that the holey boat founders next to a larger ship that’s sinking and spilling oil into the water. — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2017

Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness? — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 July 2017