- Scragginess
- Scragginess Scrag"gi*ness, n. The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness. [1913 Webster]
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Scragginess
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scragginess — See scraggily. * * * … Universalium
scragginess — noun The state or condition of being scraggy … Wiktionary
scragginess — n. Leanness, ruggedness, roughness … New dictionary of synonyms
scragginess — scrag·gi·ness … English syllables
scragginess — gēnə̇s, gin noun ( es) : the quality of being scraggy * * * scraggˈiness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑scrag … Useful english dictionary
scraggy — scraggily, adv. scragginess, n. /skrag ee/, adj., scraggier, scraggiest. 1. lean or thin; scrawny. 2. meager. 3. irregular; craggy; jagged. [1565 75; SCRAG + Y1] * * * … Universalium
scraggy — (adj.) early 13c., rough, jagged (figurative); 1570s, of landscape, rough, rugged, stumpy; 1610s, of persons, gaunt and wasted; see SCRAG (Cf. scrag) + Y (Cf. y) (2), and Cf. SCROGGY (Cf. scroggy). Related: Scragginess … Etymology dictionary
scraggy — adjective (scraggier, scraggiest) 1》 scrawny. 2》 (also chiefly N. Amer. scraggly) ragged or untidy in form or appearance. Derivatives scraggily adverb scragginess noun … English new terms dictionary
emaciation — n 1. gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, spareness, skinniness, thinness, leanness, lankness, lankiness, slimness, slenderness, attenuation, tenuity; Psychiatry. anorexia. 2. atrophy, atrophia,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
