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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tattered, frayed, or torn.
- adjective Dressed in tattered or threadbare clothes.
- adjective Unkempt or shaggy.
- adjective Having an irregular surface or edge; uneven or jagged in outline.
- adjective Imperfect; uneven.
- adjective Harsh; rasping.
- adjective Exhausted or worn out.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rough shaggy coat, as a horse or sheep; shaggy.
- Rough, uneven, or rocky, as a sea-bottom.
- Roughly broken, divided, or disordered; having disjointed parts, or a confusedly irregular surface or outline; jagged; craggy; ruggedly uneven or distorted: often used figuratively.
- Rent or worn into rags or tatters; tattered; frayed: as, a ragged coat; ragged sails.
- Wearing torn or frayed clothes; dressed in rags or tatters.
- Shabby; ill-furnished.
- In heraldry, same as
raguly , especially of anything which is raguly on both sides. Seeragged staff , below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken
- adjective Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
- adjective rare Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
- adjective Wearing tattered clothes.
- adjective Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- adjective (Bot.) the fennel flower (
Nigella Damascena ). - adjective (Bot.) a plant of the genus Lychnis (
Lychnis Flos-cuculi ), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes. - adjective (Bot.) prince's feather (
Polygonum orientale ). - adjective [Eng.] a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rag . - adjective Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
- adjective Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
- adjective Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear;
dissonant . - adjective Wearing tattered clothes.
- adjective Rough; shaggy; rugged.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worn out from stress or strain
- adjective having an irregular outline
- adjective being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Agincourt.] [Footnote IV. 16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, _] By their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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The columns are designed with what we call ragged right -- a different design than news stories -- to help differentiate between column and news.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mike_littwin 2010
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The columns are designed with what we call ragged right -- a different design than news stories -- to help differentiate between column and news.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mike_littwin 2010
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The columns are designed with what we call ragged right -- a different design than news stories -- to help differentiate between column and news.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mike_littwin 2010
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The columns are designed with what we call ragged right -- a different design than news stories -- to help differentiate between column and news.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mike_littwin 2010
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The columns are designed with what we call ragged right -- a different design than news stories -- to help differentiate between column and news.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mike_littwin 2010
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He screamed, letting the sound die out in ragged sobbing.
Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline' Narrative Magazine 2010
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They look like miniature chimney sweeps in ragged clothes.
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And even if the heroine, having lost most of her garments, is in ragged, but utterly charming deshabille, she never forgets she is a lady.
Book 3 eddvick 2008
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They stand at attention, chests heaving, sucking down air in ragged gasps.
The Army We Have 2007
Related Words
synonyms (221)
Words with the same meaning
- all in
- bad
- badgered
- baited
- battered
- beat-up
- bedeviled
- bedraggled
- beset
- blowzy
- brassy
- brazen
- broken-down
- bugged
- bullyragged
- capricious
- careless
- changeable
- changing
- chintzy
- chivied
- choked
- choppy
- cleft
- cloven
- coarse
- corrugated
- cracked
- cragged
- craggy
- crinkled
- croaking
- croaky
- crumpled
- cut
- deteriorated
- deviating
- deviative
- deviatory
- deviled
- different
- dilapidated
- discordant
- disordered
- disorderly
- dissonant
- divaricate
- divergent
- diversified
- diversiform
- dog-tired
- dogged
- dowdy
- down-at-heel
- down-at-the-heels
- drabbletailed
- draggled
- draggletailed
- dry
- erose
- erratic
- exhausted
- fagged out
- fatigued
- frayed
- frazzled
- frowzy
- frumpish
- frumpy
- full of holes
- grating
- gravelly
- grubby
- gruff
- guttural
- harassed
- harried
- harsh
- harsh-sounding
- heckled
- hectored
- hoarse
- holey
- hounded
- husky
- imperfect
- impulsive
- in pieces
- in rags
- in shreds
- in tatters
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- informal
- ironbound
- irregular
- jagged
- jaggy
- jerky
- lacerate
- lacerated
- loose
- lumpen
- mangled
- mercurial
- messy
- metallic
- motley
- mussy
- mutable
- mutilated
- needled
- neglected
- negligent
- nicked
- nipped at
- nonconformist
- nonstandard
- nonuniform
- notched
- patchy
- persecuted
- pestered
- picked on
- plagued
- pluralistic
- poky
- pooped out
- poor
- quartered
- raggedy
- rasping
- ratty
- raucid
- raucous
- rent
- ridged
- ripped
- riven
- rockbound
- rocky
- rough
- roupy
- rude
- rugged
- rugose
- rugous
- ruinous
- run-down
- saw-toothed
- sawtooth
- scragged
- scraggly
- scraggy
- scratchy
- scruffy
- seedy
- serrate
- serrated
- severed
- shabby
- shaggy
- shoddy
- shredded
- slack
- slatternly
- slipshod
- slit
- sloppy
- slovenly
- sluttish
- snagged
- snaggled
- snaggy
- sordid
- spasmodic
- spent
- splintered
- split
- sporadic
- squalid
- squawking
- squawky
- stertorous
- stony
- strangled
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- teased
- thick
- threadbare
- throaty
- tinny
- tired
- toothed
- tormented
- torn
- unequable
- unequal
- uneven
- unkempt
- unneat
- unorthodox
- unsightly
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsystematic
- untidy
- ununiform
- variable
- variegated
- variform
- various
- varying
- wavering
- weary
- worn out
- worried
- wrinkled
- zigzag
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