jagged
Meaning of jagged
adjective
- with rough, sharp points protruding.
the jagged edges gashed their fingers
her jagged nerves
late Middle English: from jag1.
verb, past tense- stab, pierce, or prick.
she jagged herself in the mouth
late Middle English (in the sense ‘stab, pierce’): perhaps symbolic of sudden movement or unevenness (compare with jam1 and rag1).
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Hyphenation of jagged
jagged
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- jagged is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
jagged synonyms
Meaning jaggy:
Meaning erose:
erose, jaggy, notched, toothed
Meaning having many spikes or sharp projecting points:
Meaning impale on or pierce with a sharp point:
Meaning having a barb or barbs:
Meaning having sharp, angular, or jagged projections:
Meaning make a nick or nicks in:
Meaning having a sharpened or tapered tip or end:
Meaning having an irregular or uneven surface, edge, or outline:
Meaning (of a cliff or rock face) rough and uneven:
Meaning having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level:
Meaning not level or smooth:
Meaning not even or balanced in shape or arrangement:
Meaning having an uneven and rough surface:
Meaning having or denoting a jagged edge; sawlike:
Meaning shaped like the teeth of a saw with alternate steep and gentle slopes:
Meaning divided or edged with a zigzag line:
Meaning having small teeth or toothlike projections; finely toothed:
jagged antonyms
Meaning having an even and regular surface; free from perceptible projections, lumps, or indentations:
Words that rhyme with jagged
Mitnagged, bagged, ballyragged, beflagged, blagged, bragged, bullragged, bullyragged, carpetbagged, chinwagged, clagged, cragged, dagged, debagged, defragged, dragged, eartagged, fagged, flagged, fragged, gagged, hagged, handbagged, knagged, lagged, lallygagged, lollygagged, magged, multitagged, nagged, outbragged, outdragged, overbragged, overfagged, ragged, reflagged, retagged, sagged, sandbagged, scragged, shagged, slagged, snagged, spragged, stagged, swagged, tagged, unbagged, unbragged, unfagged
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