Synonyms for "raggedy" (57 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (12)

beat upbeat-upbedraggledblowzycarelesschintzydilapidateddowdydown at the heeldown-at-heeldown-at-the-heelsdrabbletailed

Strong matches (17)

draggleddraggletailedfrayedfrazzledfrowzyfrumpishfrumpyfull of holesgrubbyholeyin ragsin shredsin tattersinformallooselumpenmessy

Related words (28)

mussynegligentpatchypokyraggedrattyruinousscragglyscruffyseedyshabbyshoddyslackslatternlyslipshodsloppyslovenlysluttishsordidsqualid

Show 8 more words

tackytatteredtattytornunkemptunneatunsightlyuntidy

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

3 relation types

derived

1 entries

raggedy-ass

derived from

1 entries

ragged

related to

3 entries

raggedtatteredtorn

Translations

15 translations across 7 languages.

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Galician

1 entries

• esfarrapado adj (of ragged clothing)

Latin

1 entries

• pseudovestatus adj (of ragged clothing)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

• loslitt adj (of ragged clothing)

Portuguese

1 entries

• esfarrapado adj (of ragged clothing)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

• piullach adj (of ragged clothing)
• piullach adj (wearing ragged clothes)

Spanish

4 entries

• andrajoso adj (wearing ragged clothes)
• desarrapado adj (wearing ragged clothes)
• desharrapado adj (wearing ragged clothes)
• harapiento adj (wearing ragged clothes)

Swedish

3 entries

• feschlig adj (of ragged clothing)
• luggsliten adj (of ragged clothing)
• sliten adj (of ragged clothing)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The circumstances were raggedy.

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