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rough

• (a) having or caused by an irregular surface
  • trees with rough bark
  • rough ground
  • rough skin
  • rough blankets
  • his unsmooth face
  unsmooth,
• (r) with roughness or violence ("rough" is an informal variant for "roughly")
  • he was pushed roughly aside
  • they treated him rough
  roughly,
• (s) (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
  • she was a diamond in the rough
  • rough manners
• (r) with rough motion as over a rough surface
  • ride rough
  roughly,
• (s) not quite exact or correct
  • the approximate time was 10 o'clock
  • a rough guess
  • a ballpark estimate
  approximate, approximative,
• (s) full of hardship or trials
  • the rocky road to success
  • they were having a rough time
  rocky,
• (s) violently agitated and turbulent
  • boisterous winds and waves
  • "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound
  • rough weather
  • rough seas
  boisterous, fierce,
• (s) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  • a gravelly voice
  grating, rasping, raspy, gravelly, scratchy,
• (s) ready and able to resort to force or violence
  • "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville
  • they were rough and determined fighting men
  pugnacious,
• (a) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
• (a) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
  • a rough ride
  bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky,
• (a) not shaped by cutting or trimming
  • an uncut diamond
  • rough gemstones
  uncut,
• (s) not carefully or expertly made
  • managed to make a crude splint
  • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
  • rough carpentry
  crude,
• (s) not perfected
  • a rough draft
  • a few rough sketches
• (s) unpleasantly stern
  • wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus
  • the nomad life is rough and hazardous
  harsh,
• (s) unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • had harsh words
  • a harsh and unlovable old tyrant
  • a rough answer
  harsh,

Nouns

• (n) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

Verbs

• (v) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form rough in, rough out,

Synonyms

unsmooth rough in rough out roughly approximate approximative rocky boisterous fierce grating rasping raspy gravelly scratchy pugnacious bumpy jolting jolty jumpy uncut crude harsh

Antonyms

smooth cut

See also

coarse harsh irregular nonslippery uneven unironed wrinkled unpolished unsubdivided simple compound

Words of close approximity