jagged
pronunciation
How to pronounce jagged in British English:
UK [ˈdʒægɪd]
How to pronounce jagged in American English:
US [ˈdʒæɡɪd]
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- Adjective:
- having a sharply uneven surface or outline
- having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
Word Origin
- jagged (adj.)
- mid-15c., from verb jaggen (c. 1400) "to pierce, slash, cut; to notch or nick; cut or tear unevenly," Scottish and northern English, of unknown origin. Originally of garments with regular "toothed" edges; meaning "with the edge irregularly cut" is from 1570s. Related: Jaggedly; jaggedness.
Example
- 1. The pacific viperfish has jagged , needlelike teeth so outsized it can 't close its mouth .
- 2. Photograph by louis decarlo , my shot the western shore of the windswept isle of lewis in the outer hebrides is dominated by jagged , rocky cliffs and roiling atlantic waves .
- 3. The shiva asteroid impact was powerful enough to vaporize earth 's crust where it struck , allowing the much hotter mantle to well up and create the crater 's tall , jagged rim , chatterjee estimates .
- 4. As the little boat drifted perilously close to jagged rocks , I gaped upwards , lost in wonder at the scale of the honey-coloured cliffs that rose from nothing and soared to loom more than 200 metres above my head .
- 5. There was a sheer drop of more than a mile straight down , and at the distant bottom were jagged rocks and stunted trees that looked , in the blue haze , like shrubbery .