Meaning

2 senses
  1. Rough and irregular; jagged.

  2. Lean or thin, scrawny.

    сухорлявийsuxorljavyj, захлялийzaxljalyj, худющийxudjuščyj

    being very thin

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The eagle landed on a scraggy tree.

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  2. Scant, low, scraggy cedars gave place to more numerous, darker, greener, bushier ones, and these to high, full-foliaged, green-berried trees.

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Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
very lean:

Forms

scraggier, scraggiest
Comparativescraggier Lesson
Superlativescraggiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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