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scraggy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of scraggy

1 having an uneven edge or outline

  • a scraggy beard
Synonyms of scraggy

broken, craggy, jagged, ragged, scraggly
Words Related to scraggy

saw-toothed, serrate, serrated

harsh, rough, roughened, rugged

bumpy, coarse, irregular, nonuniform
Near Antonyms of scraggy

regular, uniform

flat, flush, level, plane
Antonyms of scraggy

clean, even, smooth, soft, unbroken

2 not having a level or smooth surface

  • climbers badly scraped their limbs on the scraggy cliffs
Synonyms of scraggy

broken, bumpy, coarse, irregular, jagged, lumpy, pebbly, ragged, rough, roughened, rugged, uneven
Words Related to scraggy

lopsided, unbalanced

inexact, unaligned

rutted, rutty, undulating, undulatory, wavy

pitted, pocked

knobbly, knobby, knurled, knurly, nubbly, nubby

burred, harsh, sandpapery, scraggly, scratchy

nonuniform
Near Antonyms of scraggy

exact, uniform

aligned (also alined), regular, true

horizontal, tabular

plumb, straight, vertical

flush
Antonyms of scraggy

even, flat, level, plane, smooth

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