Irregularity vs Scragginess - What's the difference?
irregularity | scragginess |
(countable) An instance of being irregular.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
(countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
(countable) A violation of rules.
Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
* 2004 , Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies , ISBN 9781595261427,
Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
* 1900 , , "A Wrong Altar" in Cupid's Garden .
* 1922 , , Man and Maid , ch. 21:
As nouns the difference between irregularity and scragginess
is that irregularity is an instance of being irregular while scragginess is roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.irregularity
English
Noun
- an irregularity of surface
- An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.
Antonyms
* regularityscragginess
English
Noun
(-)p. 59:
- He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
- [I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess , George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.
- There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.