straggly

Other forms of straggly

comparative

stragglier·

superlative

straggliest·

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 straggly

What does straggly mean?

straggly means "spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in straggly?

straggly has 2 syllables: strag-gly. The stress falls on "strag".

What is another word for straggly?

Close synonyms include sprawling, straggling, rambling. 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 straggly a common word?

straggly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.