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). ragged robin a pink-flowered campion, Lychnis flos-cuculi, with tattered petals. raggedly adv. raggedness n. raggedy adj.
[ ME f. ON roggvathr tufted ]