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The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
Stewart O'Nan

Meaning of "ragged" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RAGGED

Probably from raggerag1.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RAGGED

ragged  [ˈræɡɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAGGED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ragged is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RAGGED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ragged in the English dictionary

The first definition of ragged in the dictionary is worn to rags; tattered. Other definition of ragged is dressed in shabby tattered clothes. Ragged is also having a neglected or unkempt appearance.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAGGED


cragged
ˈkræɡɪd
cross-legged
ˈkrɒsˈlɛɡɪd
dogged
ˈdɒɡɪd
gid
ɡɪd
jagged
ˈdʒæɡɪd
legged
ˈlɛɡɪd
pongid
ˈpɒŋɡɪd
rugged
ˈrʌɡɪd
three-legged
ˈθriːˌlɛɡɪd
two-legged
ˈtuːˌleɡɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAGGED

ragamuffin
ragbag
ragbolt
Ragdoll
rage
rageful
rager
ragg
ragga
ragged robin
ragged school
raggedly
raggedness
raggedy
raggee
raggery
ragging
raggle
raggle-taggle
raggy

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAGGED

bagged
bragged
dragged
fagged
flagged
fragged
gagged
jet-lagged
lagged
logged
nagged
sagged
sandbagged
shagged
slagged
snagged
swagged
tagged
untagged
wagged
zigzagged

Synonyms and antonyms of ragged in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAGGED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ragged» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ragged

Translation of «ragged» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAGGED

Find out the translation of ragged to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ragged from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ragged» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

衣衫褴褛的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

andrajoso
570 millions of speakers

English

ragged
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रचंड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خشنة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рваный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esfarrapado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déguenillé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kasar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abgerissen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ぼろを着た
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남루한 차림의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ragged
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tả tơi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிழிந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिंध्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düzensiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cencioso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obdarty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рваний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zdrențuită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ragged
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verskeurde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trasig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fillete
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ragged

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAGGED»

The term «ragged» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.273 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAGGED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ragged» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ragged» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ragged

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10 QUOTES WITH «RAGGED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ragged.
1
Aaliyah
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.
2
Shana Alexander
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
3
William R. Alger
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
4
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
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Mary Harris Jones
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.
6
King Krule
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
7
Jenna McCarthy
Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up.
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Peggy Noonan
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.
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Stewart O'Nan
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
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Jonathan Raban
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAGGED»

Discover the use of ragged in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ragged and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ragged Dick: Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
The story follows the adventures of the eponymous Dick, a young shoe polisher who overcomes his low circumstances and rises through the ranks of society by dint of his diligence, persistence, and general good cheer.
Horatio Alger, 2009
2
Ragged Dick ; And, Struggling Upward
Two novels depict the struggles of virtuous boys to overcome poverty and achieve success and respectibility
Horatio Alger, Carl Bode, 1985
3
Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, Coon Songs, and the ...
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers.
Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, 2009
4
Ragged Company
Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories. From the Hardcover edition.
Richard Wagamese, 2009
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The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier ...
In The Ragged Edge of the World, he takes us from pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world's most pristine rainforest in the Congo to tell the story of the harm taking place-and the successful preservation efforts-in the world's last ...
Eugene Linden, 2011
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Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy
Two famous novels by Horatio Alger that focus on rags-to-riches tales.
Horagio Alger, 2009
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A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community.
Robert Roberts, 1997
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The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World
Francis explores the long tradition of silence and its effect through the ages, as well as the enormous impact it has on the modern world.
John Francis, 2011
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Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York: Or, Street Life in ...
However, the book is very readable, and we should consider it a much more valuable addition to the Sunday-school library than the tales of inebriates and treatises on the nature of sin, that so often find place there.
Horatio Alger Jr., 2004
10
A ragged pen: essays on poetry & memory
Together these essays make fascinating crossovers and offer fresh insight on memory and art. A Ragged Pen is a valuable new contribution to the study of poetics and narrative philosophy.
Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAGGED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ragged is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ragged Ass Barbers Sorry For Refusing Service On Basis Of Gender
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission announced Tuesday that Ragged Ass Barbers has come to a “mutually amenable mediated settlement” with ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jun 15»
2
Clogs from Victorian Ragged School in Manchester acquired by …
The building that once housed Charter Street Ragged School still stands at the corner of Dantzic Street and Little Nelson Street, in Angel Meadow on the edge of ... «Culture24, May 15»
3
Ragged Records celebrating Record Store Day
Ragged Records will have live entertainment all day, including Seth Knappen (indie rock from the Quad-Cities), Jack Lion (fusion/rhythm and blues from Iowa ... «Quad City Times, Apr 15»
4
These Minimalist Ice Sculptures Just Might Calm Your Ragged
Sick of winter? You could vent that frustration by muttering curse words under your breath with every shovel of snow you clear from the driveway. Or you could ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
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Deadly crash reported on HWY 1 just north of Ragged Point
The California Highway Patrol is reporting a crash on Highway 1, just north of Ragged Point, as a fatality. The CHP received reports of a vehicle over a cliff ... «KSBY San Luis Obispo News, Mar 15»
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Atascadero woman describes how she survived Ragged Point crash
Atascadero resident Debra Lopez, 57, recounted Thursday a three-day ordeal that began after she inadvertently drove her truck off Highway 1 south of Ragged ... «The San Luis Obispo Tribune, Feb 15»
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Eamonn Holmes brags about his active sex life with wife Ruth …
No wonder I look tired all the time – that woman has me run ragged. I go to work for a break.' Scroll down for video. He's a lucky man: Eamonn Holmes has ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
8
Rock Slide Closes Highway 1 Near Ragged Point Inn
Cal Trans work crews have now clearned a section of Highway 1 shut down by slides from this latest storm. The highway patrol shut down one lane last night ... «KCBA, Dec 14»
9
Just Cool Cars: A ragged '47 Chrysler is the 'Termite Taxi'
Just Cool Cars: A ragged '47 Chrysler is the 'Termite Taxi'. USA TODAY's Chris Woodyard talks to Tevie Smith of Vancouver, B.C., about his 1947 Chrysler that ... «USA TODAY, Nov 14»
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Review: 'REDWOLF' an alluring but disjointed effort by Ragged
It's obvious from the start that Ragged Wing Ensemble's new play "REDWOLF" is a riff on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. You have a teenage girl called Red, ... «San Jose Mercury News, Oct 14»

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