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clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.

torn or worn to rags; tattered: ragged clothing.

shaggy, as an animal, its coat, etc.

having loose or hanging shreds or fragmentary bits: a ragged wound.

full of rough or sharp projections; jagged: ragged stones.

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in a wild or neglected state: a ragged garden.

rough, imperfect, or faulty: a ragged piece of work.

harsh, as sound, the voice, etc.

(of a column of type) set or printed with one side unjustified; either flush left with the right side unjustified (ragged right) or flush right with the left side unjustified (ragged left).

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ragget. See rag¹, -ed³

Related forms

rag·ged·ly, adverb

rag·ged·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. shabby, poor. 2. shredded, rent.

Antonyms
1. neat.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Within a minute or two, the breath comes in ragged gasps and it seems impossible to draw enough air into the lungs.

Very young people run themselves ragged on multiple levels because they know that's what's needed to get into the top.

Every rubbish skip has ragged children in it, foraging for lunch.

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Within a minute or two, the breath comes in ragged gasps and it seems impossible to draw enough air into the lungs.

Very young people run themselves ragged on multiple levels because they know that's what's needed to get into the top.

Every rubbish skip has ragged children in it, foraging for lunch.

Army-issue camouflage trousers under a ragged gray coat.

Remove plants in summer if they begin to look ragged.

Especially if he has a ragged hole where one eye should be.

The three men stood in a ragged row on the sidewalk, backs against the shop fronts, baseball caps pulled low.

He took a series of harrowing photographs of ragged men who look as if they are freezing to death.

The beauty out here on the islands is ragged and rough, cultivated but untamed.

There's a better range of movement allowed by ragged yellow robes that you'd think.

The youngster who, with ragged trousers, used barefoot to drive his father's oxen and spend his days in splitting.

The ragged rank and file have replaced the previous state-security apparatus.

They've already been out in the field for four weeks and their clothes and vertical gear were ragged and torn.

It was so beaten up and so ragged and full of holes and mud.

Today's game was ragged but intense for three quarters.

The paper may be deliciously thick, with ragged edges and a.

By the mid-1990s, the guru was looking a little ragged.

Some of the protesters sport dreadlocks, look ragged and lounge around on mattresses.

Men, ragged or smartly dressed in dark suits, clean their teeth wherever they can spit.

Stewart a ragged line and with his rabbity smile he is apt to make it sound mighty funny.

Its a ragged cloth that many have discarded after wearing it thin.

The traffic, pollution, humidity and heat can leave nerves feeling ragged and bruised.

The paper may be deliciously thick, with ragged edges and a surface capillaried with tiny fibres of the rags that made it.

Trees snapped off by the blasts leave ragged stumps.

In his dream, he had seen a band of poorly dressed men, ragged and miserable in appearance.

Crowds spilled onto the streets to see the parade of soldiers in ragged black uniforms.

He was a ragged fellow with a bushy beard, dressed in the.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to scold.

to subject to a teasing, especially in an intense or prolonged way (often followed by on): Some of the boys were ragging on him about his haircut.

British. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.

noun

British. an act of ragging.

Origin:
1790–1800; origin uncertain

verb (used with object), ragged, rag·ging.

to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting.

Origin:
1870–75; origin uncertain

noun

a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.

verb (used with object)

to play (music) in ragtime.

Origin:
1895–1900; shortened form of ragtime

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World English Dictionary

ragged (ˈræɡɪd)

—*adj*
1.	(of clothes) worn to rags; tattered
2.	(of a person) dressed in shabby tattered clothes
3.	having a neglected or unkempt appearance: ragged weeds
4.	having a loose, rough, or uneven surface or edge; jagged
5.	uneven or irregular: a ragged beat; a ragged shout

[C13: probably from raggerag¹]

'raggedly

—*adv*

'raggedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

rag

"scold," 1739, of unknown origin; perhaps related to Dan. dialectal rag "grudge."

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ragged

"rough, shaggy," c.1300, from rag (n.), but earliest use is not directly from the main sense of that word and may reflect a broader, older meaning. Of clothes, early 14c.; of persons, late 14c. Raggedy Ann doll first attested 1918.

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Slang Dictionary

rag definition

n.
a newspaper. : What a rag! It's only good for putting in the bottom of bird cages!
n.
ugly or badly styled clothing; an ugly garment. : I can't wear that rag!
n.
any clothing, even the best. (Always plural.) : Man, I got some new rags that will knock your eyes out!
n.
a sanitary napkin; a tampon. (For use in the menstrual cycle. Usually objectionable.) : God, I've got to change this rag!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

ragged

see run one ragged.

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