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Definition of Ragged |
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Ragged
of Rag Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. Rough; shaggy; rugged. Related Definitions: And, As, Broken, Clothes, Coat, Disagreeable, Dissonant, Ear, Fellow, Harsh, Having, Hence, Into, Is, Jagged, Of, Or, Rag, Ragged, Rent, Rough, Rugged, Sail, Shaggy, Tattered, Texture, The, Till, To, Uneven, Wearing, With, Worn |
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Ragged Quotations
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. Walt Whitman I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Aaliyah Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Herman Melville Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. Krist Novoselic I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. Mary Harris Jones I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. Peggy Noonan Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. Roger Andrew Taylor The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. William R. Alger Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. Shana Alexander |
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Ragged Translations
ragged in German is zerlumpt, zerlumpte, zottig ragged in Hungarian is kopott, rongyos, bozontos, szakadozott ragged in Italian is cencioso ragged in Spanish is harapiento ragged in Swedish is trasig |
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