craggy
/ˈkraɡi
/adjective (craggier, craggiest)
1(Of a landscape) having many crags: a craggy coastline...
- In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
- For some nature lovers, the craggy, volcanic landscape of Iceland is a paradise.
- It has a contrasting landscape ranging from beautiful and mesmerizing beaches to sprawling and craggy mountain ranges.
1.1(Of a cliff or rock face) rough and uneven.Thrust together amid the stark, craggy cliffs of the Irish countryside, the three women confront old quarrels....
- The Judean Desert, with it's dramatic, craggy cliffs, offers special opportunities for adventurous hikes, climbing, and rappelling.
- A wave of dizziness swamped her as she stared down on craggy cliffs.
Synonyms
rocky, rough, ragged, rugged, uneven, bumpy, stony, irregular, pitted, broken up, jagged, precipitous, cragged, rock-bound
1.2(Of a man’s face) rugged and rough-textured in an attractive way.But Catlin - a tall, balding, 67-year-old M.D. with a handsomely craggy face - just frowns when I prod him....
- With his craggy face and a pocketful of smokes, this mysterious new Marlboro Man is none other than: Bob Dole.
- As firelight flickers across his craggy face and sweat runs down his ample forehead, you can bet he's laughing manically.
Synonyms
rugged, rough-hewn, rough-textured, strong, manly, masculine;
weather-beaten, weathered
Derivatives
craggily
- His approach tends towards the craggily massive - he gives the first movement enormous space in which to develop.
- His craggily handsome features and deceptively quiet smartness easily fill any gaps.
- ‘And now it's Tony's turn,’ says Wilson, unable to keep the happy smile off his craggily expressive features.
cragginess
- But what Craig lacks in loftiness he makes up for in, as he would put it, cragginess.
- The rolling hills of deciduous forest gave way to cragginess, with bare outcrops, rocky islands, and a boreal forest of spruce.
- One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings.