Ragged

Verb
ragged



Adjective

 * 1) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
 * 2) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
 * 3) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
 * A ragged noise of mirth. - George Herbert.
 * 1) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
 * 2) Rough; shaggy; rugged.
 * What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? - John Dryden.

Adverbs for Ragged
terribly; carelessly; pitiably; negligently; pathetically; impossibly; irregularly; disgracefully; contemptibly; shabbily; appallingly; shamefully; shockingly; unnecessarily; heedlessly; blithely; gleefully; hoydenishly; tomboyishly; nonchalantly; pitifully; deliberately; mischievously.

Thesaurus
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, 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

Etymology
From rag

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/r{gd/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"r{gId/}}

Adjective

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 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Portuguese: esfarrapado
 * Scottish Gaelic:


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 * Finnish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: rähjäinen, ryysyinen


 * French: enguenillé
 * Scottish Gaelic:


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 * Scottish Gaelic:

Derived terms

 * ragged lady
 * raggedly
 * raggedness
 * ragged robin
 * ragged sailor
 * ragged school

Anagrams

 * dagger