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scragged |
scraggedness |
scraggily |
scragginess |
scraggly |
scraggy
| scragly
| scram
| scramble
| scrambled
| scrambled eggs
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scraggy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scraggy has 2 senses
- scraggy(s = adj.all) boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" Derived form noun scrag1
- scraggy(s = adj.all) jagged, jaggy - having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"
CIDE DICTIONARY
scraggy, a.
- Rough with irregular points; scragged. J. Philips. [1913 Webster]
- Lean and rough; scragged. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scraggy, adj. (scraggier, scraggiest) thin and bony.
Derivative
scraggily adv. scragginess n.
THESAURUS
scraggy
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, angular, asperous, bony, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, gravelly, harsh, incipient, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, midget, nanoid, pygmy, ragged, rawboned, rockbound, rocky, rudimental, rudimentary, rugged, rugose, rugous, runty, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scabrous, scragged, scraggly, scrawny, scrubby, serrate, serrated, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, squat, stony, stunted, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undersize, undersized, underweight, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth, wizened, wrinkledROGET THESAURUS
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Littleness
N littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments), little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate, in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically.Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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