All scraggy synonyms
scrag·gy
S s adj scraggy
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- lanky — ungracefully thin and rawboned; bony; gaunt: a very tall and lanky man.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- brambly — having or resembling brambles.
- craggy — A craggy cliff or mountain is steep and rocky.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- fagged — to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- hollow-eyed — having sunken eyes.
- chapped — If your skin is chapped, it is dry, cracked, and sore.
- haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
adjective scraggy
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
- wrinkly — having wrinkles or tending to wrinkle; creased; puckery: a wrinkly material.
- weedy — full of or abounding in weeds.
- attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- attenuated — An attenuated object is unusually long and thin.
- fleshless — Without flesh, lacking flesh.
- fretted — ornamented or provided with frets: a fretted molding.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- extenuated — Simple past tense and past participle of extenuate.
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- nodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.