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rough
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Adjective
  • unkind or cruel or uncivil
    • had harsh words
    • a harsh and unlovable old tyrant
    • a rough answer
  • unpleasantly stern
    • wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus
    • the nomad life is rough and hazardous
  • not perfected
    • a rough draft
    • a few rough sketches
  • not carefully or expertly made
    • managed to make a crude splint
    • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
    • rough carpentry
  • not shaped by cutting or trimming
    • an uncut diamond
    • rough gemstones
  • causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
    • a rough ride
  • of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
  • 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
  • unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    • a gravelly voice
  • violently agitated and turbulent
    • boisterous winds and waves
    • the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound
    • rough weather
    • rough seas
  • full of hardship or trials
    • the rocky road to success
    • they were having a rough time
  • not quite exact or correct
    • the approximate time was 10 o'clock
    • a rough guess
    • a ballpark estimate
  • (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
    • she was a diamond in the rough
    • rough manners
  • having or caused by an irregular surface
    • trees with rough bark
    • rough ground
    • rough skin
    • rough blankets
    • his unsmooth face
Noun
  • the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Adverb
  • with rough motion as over a rough surface
    • ride rough
  • with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
    • he was pushed roughly aside
    • they treated him rough
Verb
  • prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
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