scraggy
- adjective
- /ˈskræɡi/
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- The scraggy dog wandered the streets looking for food, its bones visible beneath its thin fur.
Examples
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He was dressed in a new, well-cut suit of blue serge, and his low collar, two or three sizes too large for him, showed a wrinkled, scraggy neck.
Academic text (1990) -
Your scraggy old neck.
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He pulled the animal's short, scraggy ears and rolled over with it in the mud. "Photograph"
Fiction book (1998) -
He heard them speak in a language he could not understand and then watched them go off, the thin man badly shaken, the fat one wailing, the scraggy horse limping, and the donkey impassive.
Fiction book (1995) -
He said that he had a better barber and spent more on razors than the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who's recognizable by his gray beard and scraggy gray hair.
Blog text (4) -
With a scraggy appearance, the old man seemed fragile and weak as he sat on the park bench.
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The scraggy plant barely survived in the dry soil, its limp stems and few leaves showing signs of struggle.
Synonyms
298
1.3
Very thin in a way that looks unhealthy
40
4.2
Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy
30
2.5
So thin that you can see the bones under the skin
9
6.0
Thin and untidy in appearance, often with rough, uneven ends
9
7.3
Very thin and pale from illness, hunger, or hard times
8
3.1
Very thin and below a healthy weight for their age and height
4
4.8
Very small and wrinkled, often because of age or illness
1
5.4
Very thin and weak, with little muscle
1
6.0
Very thin in a way that looks like a small branch
1
5.2
Dry and wrinkled because it has lost water
Thin so you can see or feel the bones
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scraggy comes from an older word scrag that meant 'neck' or a thin, weak person, so think of a long, bony neck. So a scraggy person or animal looks very thin and gaunt.