Definition of Raggedness

1. Noun. A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.


2. Noun. Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags.
Generic synonyms: Manginess, Seediness, Shabbiness, Sleaziness
Derivative terms: Ragged

Definition of Raggedness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being ragged. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Raggedness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raggedness

raggamuffins
raggare
raggares
raggas
ragged
ragged-fringed orchid
ragged orchid
ragged orchis
ragged red fibers
ragged robin
raggeder
raggedest
raggedier
raggediest
raggedly
raggedness (current term)
raggednesses
raggedy
raggee
raggees
raggeries
raggery
raggie
raggier
raggies
raggiest
ragging
raggings
raggle
raggle-taggle

Literary usage of Raggedness

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

1. Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers and Spanin by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1870)
"... and who have preserved, and enhanced with the lapse of time, their precious legacy of rags ! Here we found this incarnate raggedness, ..."

2. The Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography (1903)
"For modern titles in type there is no valid excuse for this raggedness. ... In many modern imitations of this fashion the raggedness at the right is ..."

3. Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography edited by Annie (Dennis) Bursch, Frederick C. Bursch (1903)
"For modern titles in type there is no valid excuse for this raggedness. ... In many modern imitations of this fashion the raggedness at the right is ..."

4. The Pinch of Poverty: Sufferings and Heroism of the London Poor by Thomas Wright, Riverside Visitor (1892)
"Thus, while raggedness is still the badge of all the tribe of such children as are here in question, it is no longer the old slatternly " looped and ..."

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