Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having crags: craggy terrain.
- adj. Rugged and uneven: a craggy face.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rock.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having hills and crags
Etymologies
- From crag + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I don't even remember whether "craggy" is a real word.”
“Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.”
“I still have confidence in him, but as someone not entirely au fait with all the technical stuff, that might be because I am associating him with the only other chap who was habitually described as craggy, the actor Jack Hawkins, who was convincing in any number of roles as a clear-thinking, tough-talking man of action.”
“He had a face not unlike the oak trees whose wood he admired, which is to say craggy, and a disposition to match.”
“Most of the time Imus is simply bitching like a bitter old man, and genuine misanthropy has its own kind of craggy integrity in a media biosphere where the on-air talent glisten like fresh produce and need PIN codes to access their emotions.”
“Whatever happened to the 'craggy' look, I say. posted by Glyn Davies at”
“He has this great long, kind of craggy face --it's actually not craggy yet but it will be wonderfully so in about 15 years.”
“He had the kind of face that a gushing female would probably describe, Malone thought, as "craggy," but it didn't look in the least attractive to Malone.”
“In conditions of this kind he always turned to seek for something mentally "craggy," as Byron said, and at Cowes he wonderfully found the writings of Nietzsche.”
“Isolated, ominous and crawling with insanity and evil, it's the kind of craggy, windswept place that Max Cady -- Robert De Niro's homicidal hick from”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘craggy’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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I am : physical
Describing appearance and physique. More quantitative than qualitative/comparative. Can be used to sum a person up one-wordedly. (Still working on the definition of what I want in this list.)
handsome, beautiful, pretty, comely, ugly, rugged, buxom, buff, chiseled, svelte, lithe, portly and 35 more...
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Visual landscapes
texture, stipple, variegated, topography, denuded, granular, pebbly, tundra, veldt, savannah, steppes, mesa and 5 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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sbayer's Words
prance, flagella, craggy, purloin, cabal, splay, ferment, embezzle, shudder, draconian, smorgasbord, umbrage and 4 more...
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drdonaldbrief's Words
panties, slacks, brief, conundrum, gaggle, quagmire, rubble, conflagration, etymology, ogre, discombobulate, blumpkin and 80 more...
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Good words
Words that sound good. Words that have a motion. Words that are a certain color. Words that strike me.
polyglot, twee, ugsome, fairylight, dazzle, lovely, harlot, craggy, belladonna, eucharist, astute, kindle and 22 more...
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Random- to be sorted later
araponga, apert, birsle, borak, candicant, cautel, crockard, demembration, dennebol, dissavage, ebrillade, graper and 16 more...
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