ragged

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Tattered, frayed, or torn: ragged clothes.
2. adj. Dressed in tattered or threadbare clothes: a ragged scarecrow.
3. adj. Unkempt or shaggy: ragged hair.
4. adj. Having an irregular surface or edge; uneven or jagged in outline: a column of text set with a ragged right margin.
5. adj. Imperfect; uneven: The actor gave a ragged performance.
6. adj. Harsh; rasping: a ragged cough.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Having a rough shaggy coat, as a horse or sheep; shaggy.
2. Rough, uneven, or rocky, as a sea-bottom.
3. Roughly broken, divided, or disordered; having disjointed parts, or a confusedly irregular surface or outline; jagged; craggy; ruggedly uneven or distorted: often used figuratively.
4. Rent or worn into rags or tatters; tattered; frayed: as, a ragged coat; ragged sails.
5. Wearing torn or frayed clothes; dressed in rags or tatters.
6. Shabby; ill-furnished.
7. In heraldry, same as raguly, especially of anything which is raguly on both sides. See ragged staff, below.

Wiktionary

1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of rag.
2. adj. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
3. adj. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
4. adj. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
5. adj. Wearing tattered clothes.
6. adj. Rough; shaggy; rugged.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken
2. adj. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
3. adj. rare Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
4. adj. Wearing tattered clothes.
5. adj. Rough; shaggy; rugged.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. worn out from stress or strain
2. adj. having an irregular outline
3. adj. being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn