Crossword clues for raggedness
raggedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From Rag, n.]
Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] ``A ragged noise of mirth.''
--Herbert.Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
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Rough; shaggy; rugged.
What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
--Dryden.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.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being ragged.
WordNet
n. shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
Usage examples of "raggedness".
The Crucian pilots displayed the raggedness one might expect of newbies, but little of the awkwardness and none of the hesitancy.
She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest gold.
Obed Hussey, I saw, was tall and broad shouldered: as fine looking a boy as would be encountered in a month of Sundays, except for the beard on his face and the raggedness of his clothes.
The rapidity and raggedness of his radiant exhalations would have marked him as a guilty man if witnesses had been present.
But the same tendencies, together with a sort of raggedness which is no doubt intentional, weaken his epigrams and polemical poems.