ragged — OET · Shobdo

ragged

adjective

1 a pair of ragged jeans:

tattered, in tatters, torn, ripped, split, in holes, holey, moth-eaten, frayed, worn, worn out, well worn, worn to shreds, falling to pieces, threadbare, the worse for wear, patched, scruffy, shabby, decrepit, old;

informal tatty;

literary rent.

2 a ragged child:

dressed in rags, shabby, unkempt;

British down at heel.

▷antonyms smart.

3 a ragged coastline:

jagged, craggy, rugged, uneven, rough, irregular, broken;

serrated, sawtooth, saw-edged, notched, nicked, indented;

technical crenulate, crenulated, denticulate, denticulated, dentate, crenate, crenated, serrate, serrulate.

4 the ragged remnants of an expedition sought refuge in the village:

disorganized, in disarray, confused, in confusion, disordered, disorderly;

muddled, jumbled, in a muddle/jumble, straggling, straggly, fragmented.

ragged Oxford Dictionary of English