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Definition of Craggy
1. Adjective. Having hills and crags. "Hilly terrain"
Similar to: Rough, Unsmooth
Derivative terms: Hill, Hilliness, Mountain
Definition of Craggy
1. a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
Definition of Craggy
1. Adjective. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Craggy
1. full of crags [adj -GIER, -GIEST] : CRAGGILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Craggy
Literary usage of Craggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"It is beautiful—a mixture of sylvan loveliness and craggy wild- ness. A limpid
torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"... and the country he had left behind very craggy, he ordered a fort to be built
in a very ... craggy ..."
3. The Calumet of the Coteau: And Other Poetical Legends of the Border. Also, a by Philetus W. Norris (1883)
"HIGH towers the craggy summit, begirt with glistening snow, Mirrored in emerald
lakelets in flowery vales below ; Proud soars the fearless eagle around the ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... the Agency through a country of hill and forest with wooded or steep craggy
banks. For the last 40 miles of its course, the country grows rich and open, ..."
5. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"The eyeless Cyclops heav'd the craggy rock; Prop? 46. Rocks. Slaff 19. The pendent
rock, Ixion's whirling wheel, The rocks and nodding groves ..."
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