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Definition of Ragged

1. Adjective. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn. "A ragged tramp"

2. Adjective. Worn out from stress or strain. "Run ragged"

3. Adjective. Having an irregular outline. "Herded the class into a ragged line"

Definition of Ragged

1. a. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

Definition of Ragged

1. Verb. (past of rag) ¹

2. Adjective. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken. ¹

3. Adjective. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged. ¹

4. Adjective. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. ¹

5. Adjective. Wearing tattered clothes. ¹

6. Adjective. Rough; shaggy; rugged. ¹

7. Adjective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ragged

1. tattered [adj -GEDER, -GEDEST] : RAGGEDLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Ragged

1. 1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. 2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. 3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. "A ragged noise of mirth." 4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. 5. Rough; shaggy; rugged. "What shepherd owns those ragged sheep ?" (Dryden) Ragged lady, prince's feather (Polygonum orientale). Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. Rag"gedly, Rag"gedness. Origin: From Rag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragged

ragequitted ragequitting rager ragers ragery rages ragest rageth ragg ragga

raggamuffin raggamuffins raggare raggares raggas ragged (current term) ragged-fringed orchid ragged orchid ragged orchis ragged red fibers

ragged robin raggeder raggedest raggedier raggediest raggedly raggedness raggednesses raggedy raggee

Literary usage of Ragged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The Organization, Support, and Work of a ragged School ("CONSTITUTION AND RULES of the Association for the Establishment of ragged Industrial Schools for ..."

2. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The Organization, Support, and Work of a ragged School (" CONSTITUTION AND RULES of the Association for the Establishment of ragged Industrial Schools for ..."

3. The Irish Quarterly Review (1854)
"Letter to MD Hill, Esq. Recorder of Birmingham, on Juvenile ragged Industrial Feeding ... Second Annual Report of TAi Mill-street ragged Schools, Dublin. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"The Second Annual Report of the ragged School Union, established for the ... The ragged Schools are a symptom alike of the prevailing disorder and the ..."

5. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"I can't be one of them if I must damn all the maids toiling in filthy kitchens, all the ragged hungry children. And these women are to be my arbiters, ..."

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