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Definition: Straggly |
StragglyAdjective1. Spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair". 2. Growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "straggly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: StragglySynonyms: sprawling (adj), straggling (adj). (additional references) |
| "Straggly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 62.00% of the time. "Straggly" is used about 50 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 62% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "straggly": straggly-maned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "straggly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozcuchaný (disheveled, dishevelled, unkempt, unruly, untidy, wind swept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schamele tros (straggly cluster), losse tros (straggly cluster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | löyhä terttu (straggly cluster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | grappe lâche (straggly cluster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | weitläufig (distant, lengthy, long winded, long-drawn-out, rambling, spacious, sprawling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτραπείσ τησ οδού, άτακτοσ (anomalous, fractious, haywire, irregular, mischievous, naughty, snatchy, tough, unruly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zilált (blowzy, deranged, disheveled, dishevelled, distempered, inordinate, rooky, ruffled, tousled), rendetlen (cluttered, deranged, dingy, disorderly, erratic, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, tumultuous, unkempt, untidy), növő, kusza (confused, diffuse, intricate, jumbled, muddled, shaggy), összevissza (helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, hurry-skurry, indiscriminate, pell mell, pell-mell, promiscuous, rambler, slap dash, slap-dash, to scour about, to straggle, topsy-turvy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berhamburan (spread everywhere, trickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spargolo (straggly cluster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agglystray solto (bagged, blank, loose, untied), cacho esfarrapado (straggly cluster). (various references) клочковатый, всклокоченный (dishevelled), отставший (straggler). (various references) extendido (engrossment, extended, extensive, issued, laid, lay, open, outspread, outstretched, prevalent, rampant, rife, spread out, spread wide, straggling, widespread), disperso (dispersed, scattered, sparse, straggling). (various references) อย่างกระจั"กระจาย (diffusely). (various references) seyrek (few and far between, infrequent, rare, scarce, scattered, seldom, sparse, tenuous, thin), geride kalan (fallen astern, straggler, surviving, survivor), dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, disorganized, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, scruffy, sick, straggling, unkempt, untidy, wild), başıboş (adrift, footloose, idle, idled, rambling, roving, straggling, stray, strayed, vagabond, vagrant), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering, yob). (various references) розкиданий (diffuse, diffused, rambling, straggling), відсталий (back, backward, behindhand, benighted, retarded, stick in the mud, straggling, upstage). (various references) rời rạc (desultory, fragmentary, incohesive, rigmarole, sporadic, sporadical, straggling, unconnected), lộn xộn (chaotic, confused, farraginous, jumbly, messy, promiscuous, shop, skimble-scamble, straggling, topsyturvy, turbid, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Straggly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stragegy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-l-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: slaggy, staggy, stylar. | |
-3 letters: artsy, aryls, glary, grays, gyral, lyart, raggy, saggy, salty, satyr, slaty, stagy, stray, trays. | |
-4 letters: agly, alts, arts, arty, aryl, gags, gals, gars, gast, gats, gays, grat, gray, lags, lars, last, lats, lays, rags, rats, rays, ryas, sagy, salt, slag, slat, slay, stag, star, stay, tags, tars, tray, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-l-r-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: staggeringly. | |
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