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Scraggiest vs Craggiest - What's the difference?

scraggiest | craggiest |

As adjectives the difference between scraggiest and craggiest

is that scraggiest is superlative of scraggy while craggiest is superlative of craggy.

scraggiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (scraggy)

  • scraggy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rough and irregular; jagged.
  • * , Tennyson , stanza 18:
  • Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
    Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
  • * 1894 , , The Trail of The Sword . ch. 10:
  • [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy , and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
  • Lean or thin, scrawny.
  • * 1815 , , Guy Mannering , ch. 2:
  • 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 * scragginess

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    craggiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club 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. }}