jaggedness

Examples

• All

• Maybe she was dreamy on the inside while we saw jaggedness and suffering from the outside.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The little plane soared up and over the unfamiliar jaggedness of the summit.

  Fiction book (2000)

• These mountains seem crude, she thinks, unfriendly, almost ferocious in their jaggedness, landlocked hundreds of miles from the sea.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Even the shafts of moonlight on the richly colored wooden floors acquired a jaggedness that terrified Anna.

  Fiction book (1996)

• But going to class this morning to talk on Thoreau, my Western Island planned book on American writers came home to me in a rush, said not to pine and to envy, but to take this, this created, ever-more-being created American world, this adventure into space, this idea forever being made flesh, this where we are, this reality, with all its jaggedness and rawness.

  Academic text (2011)

• The artist highlighted the jaggedness of the coastline in her painting, emphasizing its wild beauty.

• The fabric had a jaggedness that made it difficult to cut evenly without fraying.

Synonyms

R

roughness

vsjaggedness

4 3.4

The way a surface feels when it is not smooth

focuses on sharp points and projections not just broad rough texture

B

bumpity

vsjaggedness

• Informal

2 9.1

A rough, uneven surface that makes travel feel jumpy

means sharp pointed uneven edges rather than bumpy travel or movement

S

sharpness

vsjaggedness

1 3.0

A very thin edge or point that cuts things easily

describes rough edges with sharp irregular projections rather than cutting ability

B

bumpiness

vsjaggedness

1 4.6

An uneven surface with many bumps

focuses on sharp pointy projections not rounded raised bumps

R

raggedness

vsjaggedness

6.2

An uneven, rough surface or edge you can feel

emphasizes sharp points and irregular projections rather than general unevenness

C

coarseness

vsjaggedness

4.1

A rough texture that is not smooth

highlights sharp pointy projections rather than coarse surface grain

Antonyms

S

smoothness

1 2.6

How something works without pauses or problems

E

evenness

1 3.9

How smooth and the same something is across a surface or over time

How Jagged

serration

1 7.2

jaggedness

6.5

unevenness

1 5.1

roughness

4 3.4

evenness

1 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology