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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 | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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