scraggy

Other forms of scraggy

comparative or superlative

scraggier

comparative or superlative

scraggiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scraggy

What does scraggy mean?

scraggy means "being very thin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scraggy?

scraggy has 2 syllables: scrag-gy. The stress falls on "scrag".

What is another word for scraggy?

Close synonyms include scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scraggy a common word?

scraggy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.