raggedness

rag·ged  (rgd)

adj.

1. Tattered, frayed, or torn: ragged clothes.

2. Dressed in tattered or threadbare clothes: a ragged scarecrow.

3. Unkempt or shaggy: ragged hair.

4. Having an irregular surface or edge; uneven or jagged in outline: a column of text set with a ragged right margin.

5. Imperfect; uneven: The actor gave a ragged performance.

6. Harsh; rasping: a ragged cough.

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[Middle English, from ragge, rag; see rag¹.]

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ragged·ly adv.

ragged·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	raggedness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven roughness texture - the feel of a surface or a fabric; "the wall had a smooth texture" scaliness - the property of being scaly nubbiness, tweediness, coarseness - looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) slub, burl, knot - soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design abrasiveness, harshness, scratchiness - the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions graininess, granularity, coarseness - the quality of being composed of relatively large particles shagginess - roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs bumpiness - the texture of a surface that has many bumps bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
	2.	raggedness - shabbiness by virtue of being in rags manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness - a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing