ragged
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3.2
- adjective
- /ˈræɡɪd/
- There were three or four men with him, wearing ragged straw cowboy hats and dirty denim clothes.
- ragged clothing
- ragged old man
- old and ragged
Examples
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To demonstrate their plight, they even showed him their ragged clothing and starving children.
Academic text (2002) -
The boy wore a ragged shirt with holes and frayed edges.
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* He was just a ragged soldier out there in the cold *
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You never saw a ragged starving man in the refugee lines of Europe.
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Your men are pretty ragged, Stryker.
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In fact, all he had on was a short, ragged pair of breeches.
Fiction book (1992) -
His clothes were filthy and ragged; his hair the color of bleached straw.
Fiction book (1992) -
Gasps filled the amphitheater as the sooty, ragged children were revealed.
Fiction book (1992) -
They were disturbingly thin and dressed in rags, many having left their armor behind in the snow.
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"Ebenezer Scrooge hurried past the ragged boys who stood shivering in the snow, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold, as bones are gnawed by dogs."
Synonyms
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1.0
Having edges that are ripped and uneven
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6.5
Worn and dirty, in bad condition
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4.1
Old and torn clothes or fabric with loose threads
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4.1
Cloth edges that are worn and have loose threads
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4.0
Something that looks worn, torn, and messy
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5.4
Looking worn and dirty from use
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6.0
Worn and in poor condition because of age or heavy use
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4.2
Appears torn or worn, like old clothes with holes
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7.2
Cloth with loose torn threads and a ragged, worn look
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9.9
Having old torn clothes and looking untidy
Antonyms
Compounds
An orchid from the eastern United States with greenish flowers and a deeply cut lip
A greenish wildflower that has a fringed, deeply cut lower petal and grows in the eastern United States
A small orchid from the eastern United States with greenish flowers and a fringed, deeply cut lip
How Worn
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Morphology
Etymology
Ragged comes from rag ('a torn or old piece of cloth') plus the ending -ed. It was used for people who wore rags, so ragged now means clothes that are 'worn out' or torn.