RAGGEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raggedness mean? 

• RAGGEDNESS (noun)
  The noun RAGGEDNESS has 2 senses:

1. a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

2. shabbiness by virtue of being in rags

  Familiarity information: RAGGEDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGGEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

raggedness; roughness

Hypernyms ("raggedness" is a kind of...):

texture (the feel of a surface or a fabric)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raggedness"):

scaliness (the property of being scaly)

coarseness; nubbiness; tweediness (looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth))

burl; knot; slub (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)

abrasiveness; harshness; scratchiness (the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions)

coarseness; graininess; granularity (the quality of being composed of relatively large particles)

shagginess (roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs)

bumpiness (the texture of a surface that has many bumps)

bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)

Derivation:

ragged (having an irregular outline)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("raggedness" is a kind of...):

manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness (a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing)

Derivation:

ragged (being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn)

 Context examples 

Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)