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cragged

cragged adjective: having crags.

Adjective

cragged (comparative more cragged, superlative most cragged)

  1. Having crags
    • Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul?1658, Isaac Barrow, Sermons on Evil-Speaking
    • Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.1834, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii

Forms of cragged

comparativemore cragged
superlativemost cragged

Origin of cragged

From crag + -ed.

Words formed from cragged

Questions about cragged

What does cragged mean?
Cragged means having crags.
What part of speech is cragged?
Cragged is an adjective.

Words near cragged in the dictionary

  1. Crager
  2. Cragers
  3. cragfast
  4. Cragg
  5. cragge
  6. cragged
  7. craggedness
  8. cragger
  9. craggers
  10. cragges
  11. craggier

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