Dictionary Definition
scraggy adj
1 having unattractive thinness; "a child with
skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy]
2 having a sharply uneven surface or outline;
"the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged, jaggy] [also: scraggiest, scraggier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æɡi
Adjective
scraggy
- Rough with irregular points; scragged.
- Lean and rough; scragged.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, wrinkled