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CRAGGY
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Irregular inflected forms: craggier , craggiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having hills and crags
Example:
hilly terrain
Synonyms:
cragged; craggy; hilly; mountainous
Classified under:
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Context examples:
Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The young pugilist, who had a curious, lanky figure, and a craggy, bony face, passed his fingers through his close-cropped hair.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The confident smile with which he had watched the opening rounds had long vanished from his lips, and his cheeks had turned of a sallow pallor, whilst his small, fierce grey eyes looked furtively from under his craggy brows, and more than once he burst into savage imprecations when Wilson was beaten to the ground.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
