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straggly

straggly adjective: spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.

Adjective

straggly (comparative stragglier, superlative straggliest)

  1. Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
  2. Not arranged in a line.

straggly meaning in Malayalam

straggly in Malayalam

messy, untidy, unkempt
വൃത്തിയില്ലാത്ത, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, അടുക്കും ക്രമവുമില്ലാത്ത, കുഴഞ്ഞുമറിഞ്ഞ, മുക്തകേശ, ചീകിയൊതുക്കാത്ത

Forms of straggly

comparativestragglier
superlativestraggliest

Origin of straggly

From straggle + -y.

Words formed from straggly

Questions about straggly

What does straggly mean?
Straggly means spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
What is straggly in Malayalam?
Straggly in Malayalam is വൃത്തിയില്ലാത്ത, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, അടുക്കും ക്രമവുമില്ലാത്ത. See Straggly meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is straggly?
Straggly is an adjective.

Words near straggly in the dictionary

  1. straggliness
  2. straggling
  3. straggling money
  4. stragglingly
  5. stragglings
  6. straggly
  7. straggot
  8. straggots
  9. stragula
  10. stragular
  11. stragulum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: straggly (page history and authors); straggly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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