| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | rough, unsmooth | Having or caused by an irregular surface |
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| 2 | rough | (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | |
| 3 | rough, approximate, approximative | Not quite exact or correct | |
| 4 | rough, rocky | Full of hardship or trials | |
| 5 | rough, boisterous, fierce | Violently agitated and turbulent | |
| 6 | rough, grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy | Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | |
| 7 | rough, pugnacious | Ready and able to resort to force or violence | |
| 8 | rough | Of the margin of a leaf shape | |
| 9 | rough, uncut | Not shaped by cutting or trimming | |
| 10 | rough, crude | Not carefully or expertly made | |
| 11 | rough | Not perfected | |
| 12 | rough, harsh | Unpleasantly stern | |
| ADVERB | 1 | rough, roughly | With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') |
| 2 | rough, roughly | With rough motion as over a rough surface | |
| NOUN | 1 | rough | The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short |
| VERB | 1 | rough, rough in, rough out | Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form |
| Sounds | rah'f |
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| Rhymes | aleph, bailiff, bluff, and 37 more rhymes in ahf at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Having or caused by an irregular surface. |
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| Examples | "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets" |
| Synonyms | unsmooth |
| Similar | abrasive, scratchy; alligatored, cracked; barky; broken, rugged; bullate; bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty; chapped, cracked, roughened; corded, twilled; costate, ribbed; cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous; crushed; homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy; imbricate, imbricated; lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy; squamulose; lined, seamed; pocked, pockmarked, potholed; rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony; roughish; rugose; sandpapery; scabby; shagged, shaggy; textured, rough-textured; verrucose, warty, wartlike |
| See also | uneven; unfinished; unironed, wrinkled; unpolished; irregular; coarse; nonslippery |
| Contrary | smooth |
| Adverbs | roughly |
| Meaning | (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse. |
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| Examples | "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" |
| Similar to | unrefined |
| Meaning | Not quite exact or correct. |
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| Examples | "a rough guess" |
| Synonyms | approximate, approximative |
| Similar to | inexact |
| Meaning | Full of hardship or trials. |
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| Examples | "they were having a rough time" |
| Synonyms | rocky |
| Similar to | difficult, hard |
| Meaning | Violently agitated and turbulent. |
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| Examples | "rough weather"; "rough seas" |
| Synonyms | boisterous, fierce |
| Similar to | stormy |
| Meaning | Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound. |
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| Synonyms | grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy |
| Similar to | cacophonous, cacophonic |
| Meaning | Ready and able to resort to force or violence. |
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| Examples | "they were rough and determined fighting men" |
| Synonyms | pugnacious |
| Similar to | aggressive |
| Adverbs | roughly |
| Meaning | Of the margin of a leaf shape. Having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped. |
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| Category | botany, phytology |
| Similar | angulate; bidentate; biserrate; ciliate, ciliated; crenate, crenated, scalloped; crenulate, crenulated; crispate; dentate; denticulate; emarginate; erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed; fimbriate; fringed, laciniate; lacerate; pectinate; rimose; runcinate; serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched; serrulate; spinose |
| See also | simple, unsubdivided; compound |
| Contrary | smooth |
| Meaning | Not shaped by cutting or trimming. |
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| Examples | "rough gemstones" |
| Synonyms | uncut |
| Similar | unsheared |
| Contrary | cut |
| Meaning | Not carefully or expertly made. |
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| Examples | "rough carpentry" |
| Synonyms | crude |
| Similar to | unskilled |
| Meaning | Not perfected. |
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| Examples | "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" |
| Similar to | unpolished |
| Meaning | Unpleasantly stern. |
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| Examples | "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" |
| Synonyms | harsh |
| Similar to | unpleasant |
| Meaning | The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short. |
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| Part of | golf course, golf links, links |
| Broader | site, land site |
| Meaning | With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'). |
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| Examples | "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" |
| Synonyms | roughly |
| Usage | colloquialism |
| Meaning | With rough motion as over a rough surface. |
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| Examples | "ride rough" |
| Synonyms | roughly |
| Meaning | Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | rough in, rough out |
| Broader | prepare |