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shaggier

shaggier is the comparative form of shaggy.

Meaning of shaggy

Adjective

shaggy (comparative shaggier, superlative shaggiest)

  1. Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.
    • a shaggy dog
  2. Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap.
  3. (figuratively) Confused, muddled.
    • Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.2023 January 6, Charles Pulliam-Moore, “M3gan is a midrange delight about the horrors of 21st-century parenting”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023

Questions about shaggier

What is shaggier the comparative form of?
Shaggier is the comparative form of shaggy.

Words near shaggier in the dictionary

  1. shagged out
  2. shaggedness
  3. shagger
  4. shagger's back
  5. shaggers
  6. shaggier
  7. shaggiest
  8. shaggily
  9. shagginess
  10. shagging
  11. shagging wagon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaggier (page history and authors); shaggy (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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