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ragged adjective
/ˈræg.ɪd/ adj Definition
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(of clothes) not in good condition; torn The children were wearing dirty ragged clothes.
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(of a person) untidy, dirty and wearing old torn clothesTwo ragged children stood outside the station begging for money.
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(especially of an edge) rough and not smoothThe leaves of this plant have ragged edges.
The patient's breathing was ragged (= not regular) and uneven.
A ragged (= not straight) line of people were waiting at the bus stop.
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not performing well, because of not being organizedThe team were rather ragged in the first half of the match, but improved in the second half.
raggedly adverb
/ˈræg.ɪd.li/ adv raggedness noun
/ˈræg.ɪd.nəs/ n [U] (Definition of ragged adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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