Definition of raggedy
1. ragged [ a ] being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
Examples:
"clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"
"a ragged tramp"
(Christopher Davis, First Family....)
It was a Negro section of peeling row_houses , store-front churches and ragged children .
(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)
And the stiffly regal look of them , she saw grimly , lacked the quaver of age which , thwarting the efforts of her amazing will , ran through her spoken_words like a thin ragged string .
(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle - it must have been late in September - I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front , nearly dying , my head bandaged and bloody , and Jessica bending over me , the power of her love bringing me back to life .
Synonyms ragged Related Terms worn2. ragged [ a ] worn out from stress or strain
Examples:
"run ragged"
(George Harmon Coxe, Error of Judgement....)
His nerves were getting a_little ragged and his impatience put an edge in his voice .
Synonyms ragged Related Terms tired3. ragged [ a ] having an irregular outline
Examples:
"text set with ragged right margins"
"herded the class into a ragged line"
(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)
I have no picture in my mind of the garden as_a_whole - that I could not see - but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory : wind-blown , frost-bitten , white chrysanthemums beneath a window , with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ripe pears lying in long grass , to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot , cautiously , lest bees still worked in the ragged , brown edged holes ; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch , where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it .
Synonyms ragged Related Terms unevenSimilar Spelling
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