craggy
Full of outcrops
Craggy describes something rough and jagged, like a cliff face with irregular projections: craggy rocks, a craggy coastline.
The word often applies to faces with prominent, irregular features—deep lines, strong bones, weathered skin: His craggy face suited the role of a sea captain.
Craggy faces are rugged rather than handsome, suggesting character over conventional beauty.
Uneven in surface
- jaggedSharply uneven, notched
- unevenNot smooth or balanced
- pittedSeed removed, or opposed
- furrowedMarked with grooves
gnarled · weathered · eroded · creviced · fractured · scarred · grooved · rutted
Eroded by exposure
- linedMarked with parallel marks
- furrowedMarked with grooves
- ruggedTough and uneven
- chiseledSharply cut, well-defined
angular · gaunt · leathery · worn · aged · wrinkled · grizzled · hard-bitten
Vertical rock wall
- outcropSurfacing native stone
- boulderLarge weathered stone
- escarpmentSteep slope dividing elevations
- torHigh rocky outcrop
rockface · precipice · bluff · overhang · ledge · granite · basalt · limestone
rough
Uneven in surface
furrowed · gnarled · weathered · eroded · creviced · fractured · scarred · grooved · rutted · coarse
weathered
Eroded by exposure
chiseled · angular · gaunt · leathery · worn · aged · wrinkled · grizzled · hard-bitten · stern
cliff
Vertical rock wall
- outcropSurfacing native stone
- boulderLarge weathered stone
- escarpmentSteep slope dividing elevations
tor · rockface · precipice · bluff · overhang · ledge · granite · basalt · limestone · scree
mountain
Tall natural landmass
gorge · canyon · valley · plateau · elevation · highland · wilderness · rugged · steep · remote
rugged
Tough and uneven
- sternStrict or ship's aft
- forbiddingIntimidatingly stern or hostile
- harshUnpleasantly severe or rough
austere · grim · unyielding · severe · stoic · gruff · hardy · tough · resolute · weatherbeaten
- mountain adjectivestowering, majestic, snow-capped, rugged, jagged
- terrain wordshilly, rocky, muddy, sandy, flat
- texturessmoothness, smooth, soft, rough, roughness
- unevenuneven, irregular, unequal, nonuniform, asymmetric
- landscapesmountain, valley, hills, landscape, scenery
- weatheredweathered, worn, battered, faded, eroded