Jagged
['dʒægɪd] or ['dʒæɡɪd]
Definition
(adj.) having a sharply uneven surface or outline; 'the jagged outline of the crags'; 'scraggy cliffs' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Jag
(a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.
Checker: Sondra
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Notched, serrated, indented, denticulated, cleft, divided, uneven (on the edges).
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Examples
- He showed me one, a smoothly jagged piece of metal over a foot long. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It began with a thin scratch and ended in a jagged hole. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were jagged pieces of steel on the bridge with their bright, new torn edges and ends and these were all over the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The jagged lines seen in Fig. 16 spell the words siphon recorder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He kicked a jagged piece of steel off the surface of the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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