jagged (root: jag)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: jag=ged

CIDE DICTIONARY

jagged, a. 

 Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jagged, adj.
1 with an unevenly cut or torn edge.
2 deeply indented; with sharp points.

Derivative

jaggedly adv. jaggedness n.

THESAURUS

jagged

V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, asperous, battlemented, bent, boozy, broken, broken off, canned, capricious, changeable, changing, chipped, chopped, chopped-off, choppy, cornered, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, decousu, dentate, dentated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disguised, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, drunk, embrasured, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, forked, furcal, furcate, gashed, geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh, herky-jerky, hooked, impulsive, incised, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indented, inebriated, intermittent, interrupted, ironbound, irregular, jaggy, jerky, knee-shaped, lacerate, lacerated, mercurial, motley, muddled, mutable, nicked, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, parenthetic, patchy, pixilated, plastered, pluralistic, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rough, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scabrous, scalloped, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scrappy, serrate, serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, snatchy, spasmodic, spiked, sporadic, spotty, stony, suspended, toothed, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unlevel, unorthodox, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, wrinkled, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

jagged

Angularity

N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.