jagged

jagged
    adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
           outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: {jagged},
           {jaggy}, {scraggy}]
    2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though
       gnawed [syn: {erose}, {jagged}, {jaggy}, {notched},
       {toothed}]
    

Jag \Jag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Jagging}.]
   To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
   [Written also {jagg}.]
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   {Jagging iron}, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for
      cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
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jagged \jag"ged\ (j[a^]g"g[e^]d), a.
   Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or
   teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged
   vine leaves' shade." --Trench. -- {Jag"ged*ly}, adv. --
   {Jag"ged*ness}, n.
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153 Moby Thesaurus words for "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