jagged

The word “jagged” has 2 syllables: jag-ged

It's pronounced as /ˈdʒæɡɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for jagged?

In the thesaurus, “jagged” has 52 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jagged along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for jagged

  • asperous
  • barbed
  • broken
  • bumpy
  • burred
  • cleft
  • coarse
  • craggy
  • denticulate
  • harsh
  • indented
  • inexact
  • irregular
  • knobbly
  • knobby
  • knurled
  • knurly
  • lopsided
  • lumpy
  • nonuniform
  • nubbly
  • nubby
  • pebbly
  • pitted
  • pocked
  • pointed
  • ragged
  • ridged
  • rough
  • roughened
  • rugged
  • rutted
  • rutty
  • sandpapery
  • saw-toothed
  • scabrous
  • scraggly
  • scraggy
  • scratchy
  • serrate
  • serrated
  • snaggy
  • spiked
  • toothed
  • unaligned
  • unbalanced
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • uneven
  • unlevel
  • unsmooth
  • wavy

Antonyms for jagged

Meanings of jagged

  • verb
    1. To cut unevenly.
    2. To tease.
  • adjective
    1. Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
    2. Having a rough quality.
    3. Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.

Example Sentences

  • The adventurer carefully climbed the mountain, navigating the jagged rocks.
  • The old tree stump had jagged edges that posed a challenge for anyone sitting on it.
  • The shattered glass had jagged pieces, requiring caution during cleanup.
  • The coastline was rugged, with cliffs and jagged rocks battered by the relentless waves.
  • The torn paper had jagged edges, giving the letter a distressed appearance.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jagged, such as: aligned, alined, asperous, barbed, broken, bumpy, burred.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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jabbing

  • bayoneting
  • bayonetting
  • clawlike
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dirking
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gimleting
  • goring
  • ground
  • harpooning
  • honed
  • impaling
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • knifing
  • lacerating
  • lancing
  • pecking
  • perforating
  • picking
  • piercing
  • piking
  • pinking
  • pinpricking
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • poking
  • poniarding
  • pricking
  • pronging
  • punching
  • puncturing
  • quilling
  • riddling
  • running through
  • scratching
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • skewering
  • slicing
  • spearing
  • spikey
  • spiking
  • spiky
  • spindling
  • spitting
  • stabbing
  • sticking
  • stropped
  • thrusting
  • transfixing
  • transpiercing
  • trenchant
  • whetted

jangling

  • acrid
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • asperous
  • astringent
  • at odds
  • atonal
  • babbling
  • bitter
  • blabbering
  • blaring
  • blatant
  • blathering
  • bleak
  • bleating
  • blithering
  • boisterous
  • bonging
  • bumbling
  • cacophonic
  • cacophonous
  • caterwauling
  • chattering
  • chatting
  • chiming
  • chinking
  • chuntering
  • clamorous
  • clanging
  • clangorous
  • clanking
  • clashing
  • clattering
  • clinking
  • coarse
  • contradictory
  • contrarient
  • contrary
  • cracked
  • craggy
  • creaking
  • croaking
  • different
  • ding-donging
  • dinging
  • dinning
  • disagreeable
  • disagreeing
  • discordant
  • discrepant
  • disharmonic
  • disharmonious
  • dissonant
  • disturbing
  • divergent
  • driveling
  • drivelling
  • drooling
  • dry
  • earsplitting
  • echoing
  • flat
  • gabbing
  • gabbling
  • gibbering
  • glaring
  • gonging
  • grating
  • grim
  • guttural
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hoarse
  • incompatible
  • incongruous
  • inconsistent
  • inconsonant
  • inharmonic
  • inharmonious
  • jabbering
  • jagged
  • jangly
  • jarring
  • jawing
  • jingling
  • knelling
  • loud
  • maundering
  • metallic
  • mouthing
  • mumbling
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • noisy
  • not smooth
  • obstreperous
  • off-key
  • on a sour note
  • opposite
  • out-of-key
  • out-of-tune
  • pattering
  • pealing
  • pinging
  • plinking
  • plonking
  • plunking
  • prating
  • prattling
  • quarreling
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • rattling
  • raucous
  • resonating
  • resounding
  • reverberating
  • rigid
  • ringing
  • rough
  • rude
  • rugged
  • running on
  • rusty
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • screeching
  • severe
  • sharp
  • shouting
  • shrieking
  • shrill
  • smattering
  • sonorous
  • sour
  • sputtering
  • squawky
  • squeaky
  • stammering
  • stentorian
  • stertorous
  • strident
  • stridulant
  • stridulous
  • stuttering
  • tanging
  • tingling
  • tinkling
  • tittle-tattling
  • tolling
  • trolling
  • tuneless
  • uncongenial
  • uneven
  • unharmonious
  • unlevel
  • unmelodious
  • unmixable
  • unmusical
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unrelenting
  • unvocal
  • uproarious
  • vociferant
  • vociferous
  • yacking
  • yakking

keen

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Einstein
  • OK
  • accentuated
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • acid
  • acute
  • adequate
  • aggravated
  • agog
  • agonizing
  • alert
  • all right
  • almighty
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • anguish
  • animate
  • animated
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • apt
  • ardent
  • astute
  • athirst
  • avid
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beautiful
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • better
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleat
  • blistering
  • blubber
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breathless
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • bully
  • bumper
  • canny
  • capital
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • caustic
  • cavil
  • cerebral
  • champing at the bit
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clawlike
  • clear
  • clever
  • complain
  • complaint
  • concentrated
  • cool
  • corking
  • corrosive
  • covetous
  • crab
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crafty
  • craving
  • crazy
  • creative
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delicate
  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • disposed
  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
  • down
  • dreadful
  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
  • earnest
  • ebullient
  • edged
  • edgy
  • educated
  • emphasized
  • engaged
  • enhanced
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • erudite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • excited
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • fond of
  • four-star
  • foxy
  • fret
  • frightful
  • frontline
  • furious
  • fuss
  • game
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • geeked
  • genial
  • ghastly
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glad
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greedy
  • grief
  • grieving
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • groan
  • groovy
  • grouch
  • ground
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hair-trigger
  • hand-wringing
  • hankering
  • happy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heady
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • hepped up
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highbrow
  • holler
  • honed
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • howl
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • hype
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impatient
  • incisive
  • inclined
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • intent
  • interested
  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
  • quality
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • tingling
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • trained
  • trenchant
  • ultrasmart
  • ululate
  • unblunted
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • vivacious
  • voracious
  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
  • wily
  • wise
  • wizard
  • woe
  • wonderful
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
  • yelp
  • yowl
  • zealous

lacerating

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • clawlike
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • daggerlike
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gashing
  • goring
  • ground
  • hacking
  • hacksawing
  • haggling
  • honed
  • incising
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • scratching
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • stropped
  • tearing
  • trenchant
  • whetted
  • wounding

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