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craggy

UK/ˈkɹæɡ.i/

craggy adjective: characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

Adjective

craggy (comparative craggier, superlative craggiest)

  1. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
    • The goat climbed up the craggy rocks.
    • The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.

craggy meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

craggy in Tamil

கொடும்பாறையான, உடைக்கப்பட்ட பாறைகளுள்ள, கரடுமுரடான, மேடுபள்ளமான

craggy in Malayalam

steep, precipitous, sheer
കുത്തനെില്ക്കുന്ന, കിഴുക്കാംതൂക്കായ, കുത്തനെയുള്ള, കടുംതൂക്കാംപാറയോടുകൂടിയ, ചെങ്കുത്തായ, അപകടകരമാംവിധം ചെങ്കുത്തായ
rugged, rough-hewn, strong
ഉറച്ച, കരുത്തുള്ള, കാഠിന്യമുള്ള, കർക്കശമായ, പരുക്കനായ, പരുപരുത്ത

craggy in Kannada

ಕಡಿದಾದ ಬಂಡೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ಒರಟಾದ

Examples of craggy in a sentence

  • He came to a craggy and downsteepy rock.
  • By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.
  • Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.

All 11 example sentences with craggy

Forms of craggy

comparativecraggier
superlativecraggiest

Origin of craggy

From crag + -y.

Words that rhyme with craggy

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about craggy

What does craggy mean?
Craggy means characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
What is craggy in Tamil?
Craggy in Tamil is கொடும்பாறையான, உடைக்கப்பட்ட பாறைகளுள்ள, கரடுமுரடான. See Craggy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is craggy?
Craggy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce craggy?
Craggy is pronounced /ˈkɹæɡ.i/ (UK).

Words near craggy in the dictionary

  1. craggily
  2. cragginess
  3. cragginesses
  4. Craggs
  5. Craggses
  6. craggy
  7. Craghead
  8. Cragheads
  9. Cragin
  10. Cragins
  11. Cragle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: craggy (page history and authors); craggy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); craggy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); craggy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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