Word.ws English Dictionary

knaggier

knaggier is the comparative form of knaggy.

Meaning of knaggy

Adjective

knaggy (comparative knaggier, superlative knaggiest)

  1. Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
    Synonyms:
    bumpy, knotty, lumpy
  2. (figuratively) Temperamentally rough.
    • […]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax

Questions about knaggier

What is knaggier the comparative form of?
Knaggier is the comparative form of knaggy.

Words near knaggier in the dictionary

  1. knafeh
  2. knag
  3. Knagg
  4. knagged
  5. knaggie
  6. knaggier
  7. knaggies
  8. knaggiest
  9. knagging
  10. Knaggs
  11. Knaggses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knaggier (page history and authors); knaggy (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “knaggier.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knaggier. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.