Straggly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Growing or spread out in a disorderly or aimless way: straggly ivy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Straggling; lone and spread out irregularly: as, a straggly scrawl; a straggly village. [Colloq.]
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. spreading out in different directions
  • adj. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly
  • Equivalent
    untidy    distributed   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    graying    gray-flecked    salt-and-pepper    scraggly    stubbly    gingery    ash-blond    upswept    white-streaked    tufty