Craggy

Definition: Craggy

Craggy

Adjective

1. Having hills and crags; "hilly terrain".

2. Rocky and steep.

Date "craggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Craggy

Synonyms: cragged (adj), hilly (adj), mountainous (adj), rugged (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Roughness	Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
Sharpness	Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Craggy

English words defined with "craggy": Cragginess. (references)

Specialty definitions using "craggy": cerro ♦ St. Michael's Chair. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The craggy face of a cliff at Mona Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne	Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Craggy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Craggy" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	121	29,211

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "craggy": craggy-faced.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "craggy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i thepisur. (various references)

Arabic		‏الأجراف المتحدرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		скалист (iron-bound, rock-bound, rocky), с остри груби черти. (various references)

Chinese		崎岖. (various references)

Czech		strmý (arduous, steep), skalnatý (rocky, rugged), hrubì řezaný. (various references)

French		escarpé (crag). (various references)

German		felsig (cliffy, rockily, rocky, rugged). (various references)

Greek		κρημνώδησ (cragged, precipitous, steep), βραχώδησ (cragged, rocky), απόκρημνοσ (abrupt, precipitous, steep). (various references)

Hungarian		sziklás (cragged, rocky), szirtes (cragged, rocky, scraggy), markáns. (various references)

Italian		pieno di picchi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		巌巌とした (steep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		が�"が�"とした (steep). (various references)

Pig Latin		aggycray

Portuguese		rochoso (rocky), escarpado (abrupt, acclivitous, bluff, declivitous, go-ahead, headlong, precipitous, rugged, steep), íngreme (abrupt, acclivitous, bold, precipitous, steep, venturous), alcantilado (steep). (various references)

Romanian		stâncos (bluff, cliffy, rock-like, rocky, scraggy), abrupt (abrupt, abruptly, arduous, bluffy, bold, desultory, disjointed, harsh, perpendicular, precipitate, precipitous, rapid, sharp, steep). (various references)

Russian		скалистый (iron-bound, rocky), крутой (abrupt, arduous, hard boiled, precipitatous, precipitous, rapid, sharp, steep). (various references)

Scottish		stall (craggy steep, overhanging rock), ilbhinn (a craggy mountain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrletan, stenovit (rocky), krševit (shaggy). (various references)

Spanish		peñascoso (rocky). (various references)

Swedish		klippig (ironbound, rocky), brant och skrovlig. (various references)

Turkish		yontulmamış (barbarous, bearish, brutal, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, coarse grained, hobnailed, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, shaggy, uncut), sarp (abrupt, arduous, bluff, jagged, precipitous, rapid, rugged, scarped, steep, stiff), kayalıklı. (various references)

Ukrainian		стрімкий (abrupt, bluff, bluffy, dashing, heady, impetuous, precipitant, tear away), скелястий (rocky), крутий (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, rapid, sharp, steep). (various references)

Vietnamese		lởm chởm đá, hiểm trở (abrupt), dốc đứng (bluff, escarp, escarpment). (various references)

Welsh		clogwynog (precipitous), ysgithrog (fanged, rugged, tusked). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "craggy": scraggy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Craggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cagg, caggy, Ccagg, Chagga, Coraggio, craga, cragd, cragg, craggit, Craggsy, cragy, croggy, curagh, draggy, Kragh, preggy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "craggy" (pronounced kra"gē)
4	-r a" g ē	draggy.
3	-a" g ē	Aggie, Baggie, baggy, shaggy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-g-r-y"
	-1 letter: raggy.
	-2 letters: cagy, crag, gray, racy.
	-3 letters: arc, car, cay, cry, gag, gar, gay, rag, ray, rya, yar.
	-4 letters: ag, ar, ay, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-g-r-y"
	+1 letter: scraggy.
	+2 letters: craggily, scraggly.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
craggy garden	13
craggy garden nc	2
craggy hill	2
craggy	2
craggy range	2
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Craggy

Definition: Craggy

Craggy

Adjective

Synonyms: Craggy

Synonyms within Context: Craggy

Roughness

Sharpness

Crosswords: Craggy

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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