Definitions for ragged

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ragged rag·ged

Spelling: [rag-id]

IPA: /ˈræg ɪd/

Ragged is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in ragged (adeggr).

Definitions for ragged

noun

1. British. an act of ragging.
2. a musical composition in ragtime:

adjective

1. clothed in tattered garments:
2. torn or worn to rags; tattered:
3. shaggy, as an animal, its coat, etc.
4. having loose or hanging shreds or fragmentary bits:
5. full of rough or sharp projections; jagged:
6. in a wild or neglected state:
7. rough, imperfect, or faulty:
8. harsh, as sound, the voice, etc.
9. (of a column of type) set or printed with one side unjustified; either flush left with the right side unjustified (ragged right) or flush right with the left side unjustified (ragged left)

verb (used with object)

1. to scold.
2. to subject to a teasing, especially in an intense or prolonged way (often followed by on):
3. British. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.
4. to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting.
5. to play (music) in ragtime.

Origin of ragged

First recorded in 1250-1300, ragged is from the Middle English word ragget. See rag¹, -ed³

Examples for ragged

As far as the eye can reach in every direction are ragged peaks and spurs.

But the upper edges are ragged, torn by a wind not yet felt below.

In the evening a man came, ragged and tired, looking for something to eat.

Have you noticed how ragged and patched their clothes are?

Once more I am counting the coppers, living on the ragged edge.

Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard awillingness to endure.

Enter Rumi-naui, torn and ragged, and covered with blood, with two attendants.

The creation has a feathery train and a ragged flow of ruffled panels, which create the body of the dress and extend to the floor.

The low crunch of packed dirt against rubber tire was overwhelmed by the ragged explosions of automatic gunfire.

We are sitting in a ragged park behind a McDonalds restaurant on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.