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Antonyms for raggedness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : rag-id
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræg ɪd

Definition of raggedness

Origin :
  • "rough, shaggy," c.1300, past participle adjective as though from a verb form of rag (n.). Cf. Latin pannosus "ragged, wrinkly," from pannus "piece of cloth." But the word might reflect a broader, older meaning; perhaps from or reinforced by Old Norse raggaðr "shaggy," via Old English raggig "shaggy, bristly, rough" (which, Barnhart writes, "was almost surely developed from Scandinavian"). Of clothes, early 14c.; of persons, late 14c. To run (someone) ragged is from 1915. Related: Raggedly; raggedness.
  • As in roughness : noun the quality of being rough on the surface
Example sentences :
  • Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.
  • Extract from : « Treasure Island » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • It was a pity only to look upon the raggedness of his soldiers.
  • Extract from : « History of the United Netherlands, 1584-86, Vol. I. (of IV) Complete » by John Lothrop Motley
  • It has been censured for its "parcellings" and "raggedness."
  • Extract from : « The Cathedrals of Great Britain » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • He acquired the raggedness, the impudence, the phraseology of the vagabond class.
  • Extract from : « Tales From Bohemia » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • The other signs may be set down as loss—dirt and raggedness and disorder.
  • Extract from : « A Cathedral Singer » by James Lane Allen
  • Apart from the raggedness of their appearance and their stubbly beards, they looked at the top of their form.
  • Extract from : « The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 » by Frederick William Bewsher
  • He was evidently young, but poverty, dissipation, and raggedness made the question of his age a difficult one to solve.
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • Here were the barriers of the Cumberland heaping up gigantic piles of raggedness under bristling needle points of timber.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
  • They all showed differing degrees of dirt and raggedness, but all were far and beyond the point of respectability.
  • Extract from : « The heart of happy hollow » by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Down the yellow river swept the two uninjured rafts and the one that carried a fringe of raggedness.
  • Extract from : « A Pagan of the Hills » by Charles Neville Buck

Synonyms for raggedness

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