CRAGGY (craggier, craggiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: craggier    , craggiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does craggy mean? 

• CRAGGY (adjective)
  The adjective CRAGGY has 1 sense:

1. having hills and crags

  Familiarity information: CRAGGY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAGGY (adjective)

Comparative: craggier   
Superlative: craggiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hills and crags

Synonyms:

cragged; craggy; hilly; mountainous

Context example:

hilly terrain

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I can see his face now, with a flush over each craggy cheek-bone when the butcher made him the present of some ribs of beef.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rovers Minerva-II1A and II1-B were released from the Hayabusa 2 ‘mothership’ after a three-and-a-half-year journey and began hopping their way across the Ryugu asteroid’s craggy surface on Friday, September 21.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The technique pinpointed deposits in several Martian crater central peaks, the craggy mounds that often form in the center of a crater during a large impact.

(NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars, NASA)

Above these, were range upon range of craggy steeps, grey rock, bright ice, and smooth verdure-specks of pasture, all gradually blending with the crowning snow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I tell you—and you may mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current—as I am now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because of this, it's challenging to target a specific region of the moon's surface, and most of Cassini's previous close approaches have encountered more or less the same familiar side of the craggy moon.

(Cassini Prepares for Last Up-close Look at Hyperion, NASA)

Long did Alleyne bear the scene in mind—the knot of knights in their dull leaden-hued armor, the ruddy visage of Sir Oliver, the craggy features of the Scottish earl, the shining scalp of Sir Nigel, with the dense ring of hard, bearded faces and the long brown heads of the horses, all topped and circled by the beetling cliffs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)