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serrated
[ser-ey-tid, suh-rey-] 
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serrated
[ser-ey-tid, suh-rey-]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jagged |
| Synonyms: | denticulate, indented, notched, ragged, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scored, serrate, serried, serriform, serrulate, toothed |
| Antonyms: | smooth |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy, uneven |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, amorphous, asymmetrical, bent, broken, cockeyed, craggy, crooked, devious, disproportionate, eccentric, elliptic, elliptical, hilly, jagged, lopsided, lumpy, meandering, not uniform, notched, off-balance, off-center, out of proportion, pitted, protuberant, rough, scarred, serrate, serrated, unaligned, unbalanced, unequal, unsymmetrical, variable, wobbly, zigzagged |
| Antonyms: | even, flat, level, smooth |
| Main Entry: | jagged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ragged, notched |
| Synonyms: | asperous, barbed, broken, cleft, craggy, denticulate, harsh, indented, irregular, pointed, ridged, rough, rugged, scabrous, serrated, snaggy, spiked, toothed, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth |
| Antonyms: | even, smooth |
| Main Entry: | lacerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear, cut; wound |
| Synonyms: | claw, gash, harm, hurt, injure, jag, lance, maim, mangle, mutilate, puncture, rend, rip, score, serrate, slash, stab, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | ragged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn-out; in shreds |
| Synonyms: | badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, contemptible, crude, desultory, dilapidated, dingy, disorganized, down at the heel, fragmented, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in holes, in rags, in tatters, irregular, jagged, mean, moth-eaten, notched, patched, poor, poorly made, rent, rough, rugged, scraggy, seedy, serrated, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, shredded, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, uneven, unfinished, unkempt, unpressed, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | even, kempt, new, smooth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | score |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, nick |
| Synonyms: | cleave, crosshatch, deface, furrow, gash, gouge, graze, groove, indent, line, mark, mill, notch, scrape, scratch, serrate, slash, slit |
| Antonyms: | mend, smooth |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knifelike, cutting |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | zigzag |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving side to side |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, crinkled, crooked, devious, diagonal, erratic, fluctuating, inclined, indirect, irregular, jagged, meandering, oblique, oscillating, rambling, serrated, sinuous, sloping, snaking, tortuous, transverse, twisted, twisting, undulating, waggling, winding |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | notched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nicked |
| Synonyms: | jagged, rough, saw-toothed, serrate, serrated |
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