adj.1 (of clothes etc.) torn; frayed.
2 rough; shaggy; hanging in tufts.
3 (of a person) in ragged clothes.
4 with a broken or jagged outline or surface.
5 faulty; imperfect.
6 lacking finish, smoothness, or uniformity (ragged rhymes).
7 exhausted (esp. be run ragged).
Phrases and idioms:
ragged robin a pink-flowered campion, Lychnis flos-cuculi, with tattered petals.
Derivatives:
raggedly adv. raggedness n. raggedy adj.
Etymology: ME f. ON roggvathr tufted