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Craggy vs Clifty - What's the difference?

craggy | clifty |

As adjectives the difference between craggy and clifty

is that craggy is characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features while clifty is characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.

craggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
    • The goat climbed up the craggy rocks.
    The old man had craggy , uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
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    Related terms

    * crag * cragged * craggedness * craggily * cragginess

    clifty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 3:
    • Down the clifty gorge – its walls of solid sandstone, cloven to the bare heart of the range by the fierce momentum of the waters – the bounding river came.