English adjective: rough | |||
1. | rough having or caused by an irregular surface | ||
Samples | Trees with rough bark. Rough ground. Rough skin. Rough blankets. His unsmooth face. | ||
Synonyms | unsmooth | ||
Similar | abrasive, alligatored, barky, bouldered, bouldery, broken, bullate, bumpy, chapped, coarse-textured, corded, costate, cracked, cracked, cragged, craggy, crushed, gravelly, hilly, homespun, imbricate, imbricated, lepidote, leprose, lined, mountainous, nubbly, nubby, pebbly, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, ribbed, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rocky, rough-textured, roughened, roughish, rugged, rugose, sandpapery, saw-like, scabby, scabrous, scaly, scratchy, scurfy, seamed, shagged, shaggy, shingly, slubbed, squamulose, stony, textured, tweedy, twilled, verrucose, wartlike, warty | ||
See also | coarse, harsh, irregular, nonslippery, uneven, unironed, unpolished, wrinkled | ||
Antonyms | smooth | ||
2. | rough (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | ||
Samples | She was a diamond in the rough. Rough manners. | ||
Similar | unrefined | ||
Antonyms | refined | ||
3. | rough not quite exact or correct | ||
Samples | The approximate time was 10 o'clock. A rough guess. A ballpark estimate. | ||
Synonyms | approximate, approximative | ||
Similar | inexact | ||
Antonyms | exact | ||
4. | rough full of hardship or trials | ||
Samples | The rocky road to success. They were having a rough time. | ||
Synonyms | rocky | ||
Similar | difficult, hard | ||
Antonyms | easy | ||
5. | rough violently agitated and turbulent | ||
Samples | Boisterous winds and waves. The fierce thunders roar me their music. Rough weather. Rough seas. | ||
Synonyms | boisterous, fierce | ||
Similar | stormy | ||
Antonyms | calm | ||
6. | rough unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | ||
Samples | A gravelly voice. | ||
Synonyms | grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy | ||
Similar | cacophonic, cacophonous | ||
Antonyms | euphonious, euphonous | ||
7. | rough ready and able to resort to force or violence | ||
Samples | Pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance. They were rough and determined fighting men. | ||
Synonyms | pugnacious | ||
Similar | aggressive | ||
Antonyms | nonaggressive, unaggressive | ||
8. | rough of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped | ||
Similar | bidentate, biserrate, ciliate, ciliated, crenate, crenated, crenulate, crenulated, crispate, dentate, denticulate, emarginate, erose, fimbriate, fringed, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, laciniate, notched, notched, pectinate, rimose, runcinate, saw-toothed, scalloped, serrate, serrated, serrulate, spinose, toothed, toothed | ||
See also | compound, simple, unsubdivided | ||
Domain category | botany, phytology | ||
Antonyms | smooth | ||
9. | rough causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | ||
Samples | A rough ride. | ||
Synonyms | bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky | ||
Antonyms | smooth | ||
10. | rough not shaped by cutting or trimming | ||
Samples | An uncut diamond. Rough gemstones. | ||
Synonyms | uncut | ||
Similar | unsheared | ||
Antonyms | cut | ||
11. | rough not carefully or expertly made | ||
Samples | Managed to make a crude splint. A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them. Rough carpentry. | ||
Synonyms | crude | ||
Similar | unskilled | ||
Antonyms | skilled | ||
12. | rough not perfected | ||
Samples | A rough draft. A few rough sketches. | ||
Similar | unpolished | ||
Antonyms | polished | ||
13. | rough unpleasantly stern | ||
Samples | Wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus. The nomad life is rough and hazardous. | ||
Synonyms | harsh | ||
Similar | unpleasant | ||
Antonyms | pleasant | ||
14. | rough unkind or cruel or uncivil | ||
Samples | Had harsh words. A harsh and unlovable old tyrant. A rough answer. | ||
Synonyms | harsh | ||
Similar | unkind | ||
Antonyms | kind | ||
English noun: rough | |||
1. | rough (location) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | ||
Broader (hypernym) | land site, site | ||
Part meronym | golf course, links course | ||
English adverb: rough | |||
1. | rough with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | ||
Samples | He was pushed roughly aside. They treated him rough. | ||
Synonyms | roughly | ||
Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
2. | rough with rough motion as over a rough surface | ||
Samples | Ride rough. | ||
Synonyms | roughly | ||
English verb: rough | |||
1. | rough (creation) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | ||
Synonyms | rough in, rough out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | prepare | ||