Definitions

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

  • adjective Having crags.
  • adjective Rugged and uneven.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rock.

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

  • adjective Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks.

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

  • adjective Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

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

  • adjective having hills and crags

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From crag + -y

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Examples

  • I don't even remember whether "craggy" is a real word.

    Response: "Other" fantasyecho 2006

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • 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.

    Sausage, egg and bacon helps me through the phases with England's rugby | Martin Kelner 2011

  • He had a face not unlike the oak trees whose wood he admired, which is to say craggy, and a disposition to match.

    outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2005

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