Jagged

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by irregular projections and indentations on the edge or surface. See Synonyms at rough.
  • adj. Having a rough or harsh quality: "not a stutter exactly but a jagged sound, as if the words were being broken-off from some other, stronger current of words deep insideā€ ( Anne Tyler).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
  • adj. Having a rough quality.
  • adj. Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of jag.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having notches or teeth, or ragged edges; cleft; divided; laciniate: as, jagged leaves.
  • Cut into jags, as sleeves and other parts of a garment; cut at the edge with leaf-like serrations: a fashion of garments common in the early part of the fifteenth century. See dag
  • In heraldry, shown with broken and irregular outlines, as if torn from something else: said of any bearing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a sharply uneven surface or outline
  • adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
  • Equivalent
    uneven    rough   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cleft    laciniate    divided    indented   
    Verb Stem
    jag    jagg   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bagged    bragged    dragged    flagged    gagged    lagged    nagged    reflagged    sagged    snagged   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rocky    craggy    uneven    icy    vertical    sharp    triangular    angular    volcanic    char