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RAGGEDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("raggedness" is a kind of...):
manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness (a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing)
Derivation:
ragged (being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
Synonyms:
raggedness; roughness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("raggedness" is a kind of...):
texture (the feel of a surface or a fabric)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raggedness"):
scaliness (the property of being scaly)
coarseness; nubbiness; tweediness (looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth))
burl; knot; slub (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)
abrasiveness; harshness; scratchiness (the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions)
coarseness; graininess; granularity (the quality of being composed of relatively large particles)
shagginess (roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs)
bumpiness (the texture of a surface that has many bumps)
bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
Derivation:
ragged (having an irregular outline)
