| 单词 | jagged |
| 释义 | jagged (once / 1698 pages) adj Something is jagged when it has an uneven edge or quality to it. Teeth can be jagged, saw blades can be jagged, and the edges of leaves can be jagged. Jagged comes from 16th century English/Scottish and originally referred to a cloth, cut in a way so that the edge is not straight, but that is “toothed.” Imagine a tipsy seamstress trying to cut cloth in a straight line, but her sheers stray this way then that. She’s leaving a jagged edge on the cloth. Or perhaps you have a crush on the seamstress, but she is seen kissing another. Here, she’s leaving a jagged wound on your heart. WORD FAMILYjagged: jaggedest, jaggedly, jaggedness+/jag: jagged, jagging, jaggy, jags USAGE EXAMPLESGlamorous Cypress Point, Alister Mackenzie's masterpiece woven through cypress, sand dunes and jagged coastline, wasn't always the darling of America's 100 Greatest. Golf Digest(Jan 02, 2017) But the artist complicates things with panels in a range of shapes, often with jagged edges. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) In its early days, the web was a jagged, surreal, and almost experimental space. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj having a sharply uneven surface or outline the jagged outline of the crags Syn jaggy, scraggy uneven not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture 2adj having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed Syn erose, jaggy, notched, toothed rough of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped |
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