ragged

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Tattered, frayed, or torn.
• adjective Dressed in tattered or threadbare clothes.
• adjective Unkempt or shaggy.
• adjective Having an irregular surface or edge; uneven or jagged in outline.
• adjective Imperfect; uneven.
• adjective Harsh; rasping.
• adjective Exhausted or worn out.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken
• adjective Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
• adjective rare Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
• adjective Wearing tattered clothes.
• adjective Rough; shaggy; rugged.
• adjective (Bot.) the fennel flower (Nigella Damascena).
• adjective (Bot.) a plant of the genus Lychnis (Lychnis Flos-cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.
• adjective (Bot.) prince's feather (Polygonum orientale).
• adjective [Eng.] a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Simple past tense and past participle of rag.
• adjective Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
• adjective Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
• adjective Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
• adjective Wearing tattered clothes.
• adjective Rough; shaggy; rugged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective worn out from stress or strain
• adjective having an irregular outline
• adjective being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn