Lexic.us

Definition of Jagged

1. Adjective. Having a sharply uneven surface or outline. "Scraggy cliffs"

2. Adjective. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.

Definition of Jagged

1. a. Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.

Definition of Jagged

1. Adjective. Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut. ¹

2. Adjective. Having a rough quality. ¹

3. Adjective. (computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven. ¹

4. Verb. (past of jag) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jagged

1. having a sharply uneven edge or surface [adj -GEDER, -GEDEST] : JAGGEDLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jagged

jafas jaffeite jaffeites jaffle jaffles jag jaga jagaed jagaing jagas

jager jagers jagg jaggaries jaggary jagged (current term) jaggeder jaggedest jaggedly jaggedness

jaggednesses jaggedy jagger jaggerbush jaggeries jaggers jaggery jaggery palm jaggheries jagghery

Literary usage of Jagged

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

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Men call the joint the socket; this he crush'd And brake beside the tendons; all the flesh The jagged edge tore off; and on his knee The hero falling, sunk, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"stone, and the cist thus formed had been covered with jagged fragments of rock, over which earth was spread. This doll-like carving of antler is considered ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The specification then concludes with the claim, as follows: which leaves the edges of the paper thus sawed in a jagged condition, the action of the ..."

4. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... as a storm is ponr'd From jagged clouds, out of their arrowy lashes, Tempering the cold and radiant air around, \Vith fire that is not brightness; ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... Bailey), which is a stronger plant, with wedge-ovate, jagged leaflets, long flower stalks, large flowers and leaf-like sepals. Figs. 697, 698. (2) 697. ..."

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