Scraggiest vs Craggiest - What's the difference?
scraggiest | craggiest |
(scraggy)
Rough and irregular; jagged.
* , Tennyson , stanza 18:
* 1894 , , The Trail of The Sword . ch. 10:
Lean or thin, scrawny.
* 1815 , , Guy Mannering , ch. 2:
(craggy)
Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 24
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3
, work=The Onion AV Club
As adjectives the difference between scraggiest and craggiest
is that scraggiest is superlative of scraggy while craggiest is superlative of craggy.scraggiest
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(head)scraggy
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Adjective
(er)- Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
- Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
- [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy , and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
- On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.
Derived terms
* scraggily * scragginessReferences
*craggiest
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(head)craggy
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(er)- The goat climbed up the craggy rocks.
- The old man had craggy , uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
citation, page= , passage=Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core. }}