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jag·ged
(jăg′ĭd)adj.
1. Marked by irregular projections and indentations on the edge or surface: the jagged edge of the broken window.
2. Having a rough or harsh quality: "not a stutter exactly but a jagged sound, as if the words were being broken off from some other, stronger current of words deep inside" (Anne Tyler).
jag′ged·ly adv.
jag′ged·ness n.
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jagged
(ˈdʒæɡɪd)adj
having sharp projecting notches; ragged; serrate
ˈjaggedly adv
ˈjaggedness n
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jag•ged
(ˈdʒæg ɪd)adj.
1. raggedly notched; sharply irregular on the surface or at the borders.
2. having a harsh, rough, or uneven quality.
jag′ged•ly, adv.
jag′ged•ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | jagged - having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" uneven - not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain" |
2. | jagged - having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed rough - of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped |
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jagged
adjective uneven, pointed, craggy, broken, toothed, rough, ragged, ridged, spiked, notched, barbed, cleft, indented, serrated, snaggy, denticulate jagged black cliffs
level, rounded, regular, smooth, glassy
level, rounded, regular, smooth, glassy
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jagged
adjectiveThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
مُحَزَّز، ذو حافَّةٍ حادّه ومُحَزَّزَه
roztřepený
flossetujævn
skörîóttur
dantytaidantytumasrantytairantytas
izrobotsrobains
nazobčan
çentiklipürüzlü
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
jagged
adj → zackig; edge, hole also → schartig, (aus)gezackt; teeth → gezackt; wound, tear → ausgefranst; coastline, rocks → zerklüftet; mountains, peaks → spitz
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
jagged
[ˈdʒægɪd] adj (edge) → dentellato/a; (rock, cliffs) → frastagliato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
jagged
(ˈdʒӕgid) adjective having rough or sharp and uneven edges. jagged rocks.
ˈjaggedly adverbˈjaggedness noun
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