ragged

ragged
    adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn;
           "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp"
    2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged"
    3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right
       margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"
    

Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ragged} (r[a^]gd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Ragging} (r[a^]g"g[i^]ng).]
   To become tattered. [Obs.]
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Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From {Rag}, n.]
   1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken;
      as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
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   2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough;
      jagged; as, ragged rocks.
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   3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.]
      "A ragged noise of mirth." --Herbert.
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   4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
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   5. Rough; shaggy; rugged.
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            What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? --Dryden.
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   {Ragged lady} (Bot.), the fennel flower ({Nigella
      Damascena}).

   {Ragged robin} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Lychnis}
      ({Lychnis Flos-cuculi}), cultivated for its handsome
      flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.

   {Ragged sailor} (Bot.), prince's feather ({Polygonum
      orientale}).

   {Ragged school}, a free school for poor children, where they
      are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first
      because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.]
      [1913 Webster] -- {Rag"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rag"ged*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster] Raggie
    

220 Moby Thesaurus words for "ragged":
      all in, bad, badgered, baited, battered, beat-up, bedeviled,
      bedraggled, beset, blowzy, brassy, brazen, broken-down, bugged,
      bullyragged, capricious, careless, changeable, changing, chintzy,
      chivied, choked, choppy, cleft, cloven, coarse, corrugated,
      cracked, cragged, craggy, crinkled, croaking, croaky, crumpled,
      cut, deteriorated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, deviled,
      different, dilapidated, discordant, disordered, disorderly,
      divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dog-tired, dogged,
      dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled,
      draggletailed, dry, erose, erratic, exhausted, fagged out,
      fatigued, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
      full of holes, grating, gravelly, grubby, gruff, guttural,
      harassed, harried, harsh, harsh-sounding, heckled, hectored,
      hoarse, holey, hounded, husky, imperfect, impulsive, in pieces,
      in rags, in shreds, in tatters, inconsistent, inconstant, informal,
      ironbound, irregular, jagged, jaggy, jerky, lacerate, lacerated,
      loose, lumpen, mangled, mercurial, messy, metallic, motley, mussy,
      mutable, mutilated, needled, neglected, negligent, nicked,
      nipped at, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, patchy,
      persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, pluralistic, poky,
      pooped out, poor, quartered, raggedy, rasping, ratty, raucid,
      raucous, rent, ridged, ripped, riven, rockbound, rocky, rough,
      roupy, rude, rugged, rugose, rugous, ruinous, run-down,
      saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratchy,
      scruffy, seedy, serrate, serrated, severed, shabby, shaggy, shoddy,
      shredded, slack, slatternly, slipshod, slit, sloppy, slovenly,
      sluttish, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, sordid, spasmodic, spent,
      splintered, split, sporadic, squalid, squawking, squawky,
      stertorous, stony, strangled, tacky, tattered, tatty, teased,
      thick, threadbare, throaty, tinny, tired, toothed, tormented, torn,
      unequable, unequal, uneven, unkempt, unneat, unorthodox, unsightly,
      unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, variable,
      variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, weary, worn out,
      worried, wrinkled, zigzag