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jagged (root: jag)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective jagged has 2 senses
- jagged(s = adj.all) jaggy, scraggy - having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" Derived form noun jaggedness1
- jagged(s = adj.all) erose, jaggy, notched, toothed - having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed; Array Derived form noun jaggedness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
jagged, a.
Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jagged, adj.
1 with an unevenly cut or torn edge.
2 deeply indented; with sharp points.
1 with an unevenly cut or torn edge.
2 deeply indented; with sharp points.
Derivative
jaggedly adv. jaggedness n.
THESAURUS
jagged
V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, asperous, battlemented, bent, boozy, broken, broken off, canned, capricious, changeable, changing, chipped, chopped, chopped-off, choppy, cornered, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, decousu, dentate, dentated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disguised, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, drunk, embrasured, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, forked, furcal, furcate, gashed, geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh, herky-jerky, hooked, impulsive, incised, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indented, inebriated, intermittent, interrupted, ironbound, irregular, jaggy, jerky, knee-shaped, lacerate, lacerated, mercurial, motley, muddled, mutable, nicked, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, parenthetic, patchy, pixilated, plastered, pluralistic, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rough, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scabrous, scalloped, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scrappy, serrate, serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, snatchy, spasmodic, spiked, sporadic, spotty, stony, suspended, toothed, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unlevel, unorthodox, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, wrinkled, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
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Angularity
N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.
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