What does scraggy mean?
Scraggy means Rough and irregular; jagged..
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/ˈskɹæɡi/ · adjective
Rough and irregular; jagged..
Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
[H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.
He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
Use scraggy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scraggy means Rough and irregular; jagged..
Common synonyms include lean, thin, scrawny, jagged.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
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