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Definition of Raggedness
1. Noun. A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.
Generic synonyms: Texture
Specialized synonyms: Scaliness, Coarseness, Nubbiness, Tweediness, Burl, Knot, Slub, Abrasiveness, Harshness, Scratchiness, Coarseness, Graininess, Granularity, Shagginess, Bumpiness, Bristliness, Prickliness, Spininess, Thorniness
Derivative terms: Ragged, Rough, Rough
Antonyms: Smoothness
2. Noun. Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags.
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
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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