Ragged

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ragged} (r[a^]gd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Ragging} (r[a^]g"g[i^]ng).]
     To become tattered. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From {Rag}, n.]
     1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken;
        as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
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     2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough;
        jagged; as, ragged rocks.
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     3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.]
        "A ragged noise of mirth." --Herbert.
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     4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
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     5. Rough; shaggy; rugged.
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              What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? --Dryden.
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     {Ragged lady} (Bot.), the fennel flower ({Nigella
        Damascena}).
  
     {Ragged robin} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Lychnis}
        ({Lychnis Flos-cuculi}), cultivated for its handsome
        flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.
  
     {Ragged sailor} (Bot.), prince's feather ({Polygonum
        orientale}).
  
     {Ragged school}, a free school for poor children, where they
        are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first
        because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.]
        [1913 Webster] -- {Rag"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rag"ged*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster] Raggie

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ragged
       adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes
              as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp"
       2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged"
       3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right
          margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rag
       n 1: a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: {shred}, {tag}, {tag
            end}, {tatter}]
       2: a week at British universities during which side-shows and
          processions of floats are organized to raise money for
          charities [syn: {rag week}]
       3: music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) [syn:
           {ragtime}]
       4: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: {tabloid}, {sheet}]
       5: a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
       v 1: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering
            teacher" [syn: {torment}, {bedevil}, {crucify}, {dun}, {frustrate}]
       2: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor
          irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers
          me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after
          she leaves" [syn: {annoy}, {get to}, {bother}, {get at}, {irritate},
           {rile}, {nark}, {nettle}, {gravel}, {vex}, {chafe}, {devil}]
       3: play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
       4: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
          teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
          failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
          jacket and tie" [syn: {tease}, {razz}, {cod}, {tantalize},
           {tantalise}, {bait}, {taunt}, {twit}, {rally}, {ride}]
       5: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
          for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
          Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
          bringing cold soup" [syn: {call on the carpet}, {rebuke},
          {trounce}, {reproof}, {lecture}, {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress
          down}, {call down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
           {remonstrate}, {chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste},
           {lambast}]
       6: break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
       [also: {ragging}, {ragged}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ragged
       See {rag}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  220 Moby Thesaurus words for "ragged":
     all in, bad, badgered, baited, battered, beat-up, bedeviled,
     bedraggled, beset, blowzy, brassy, brazen, broken-down, bugged,
     bullyragged, capricious, careless, changeable, changing, chintzy,
     chivied, choked, choppy, cleft, cloven, coarse, corrugated,
     cracked, cragged, craggy, crinkled, croaking, croaky, crumpled,
     cut, deteriorated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, deviled,
     different, dilapidated, discordant, disordered, disorderly,
     divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dog-tired, dogged,
     dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, dry, erose, erratic, exhausted, fagged out,
     fatigued, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
     full of holes, grating, gravelly, grubby, gruff, guttural,
     harassed, harried, harsh, harsh-sounding, heckled, hectored,
     hoarse, holey, hounded, husky, imperfect, impulsive, in pieces,
     in rags, in shreds, in tatters, inconsistent, inconstant, informal,
     ironbound, irregular, jagged, jaggy, jerky, lacerate, lacerated,
     loose, lumpen, mangled, mercurial, messy, metallic, motley, mussy,
     mutable, mutilated, needled, neglected, negligent, nicked,
     nipped at, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, patchy,
     persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, pluralistic, poky,
     pooped out, poor, quartered, raggedy, rasping, ratty, raucid,
     raucous, rent, ridged, ripped, riven, rockbound, rocky, rough,
     roupy, rude, rugged, rugose, rugous, ruinous, run-down,
     saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratchy,
     scruffy, seedy, serrate, serrated, severed, shabby, shaggy, shoddy,
     shredded, slack, slatternly, slipshod, slit, sloppy, slovenly,
     sluttish, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, sordid, spasmodic, spent,
     splintered, split, sporadic, squalid, squawking, squawky,
     stertorous, stony, strangled, tacky, tattered, tatty, teased,
     thick, threadbare, throaty, tinny, tired, toothed, tormented, torn,
     unequable, unequal, uneven, unkempt, unneat, unorthodox, unsightly,
     unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, variable,
     variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, weary, worn out,
     worried, wrinkled, zigzag