ROUGH as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
   Hypernyms(s) rough is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • site (what does site mean?)
   • land site (what does land site mean?)

ROUGH as VERB

1. Meaning
   • prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
   Synonym(s)
   • rough in (what does rough in mean?)
   • rough out (what does rough out mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) rough is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • prepare (what does prepare mean?)

ROUGH as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • ready and able to resort to force or violence
   Synonym(s)
   • pugnacious (what does pugnacious mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • pugnacious spirits…lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville
   • they were rough and determined fighting men
   Similar To
   • aggressive (what does aggressive mean?)
2. Meaning
   • unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
   Synonym(s)
   • grating (what does grating mean?)
   • gravel (what does gravel mean?)
   • gravelly (what does gravelly mean?)
   • rasping (what does rasping mean?)
   • raspy (what does raspy mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a gravelly voice
   Similar To
   • cacophonous (what does cacophonous mean?)
   • cacophonic (what does cacophonic mean?)
3. Meaning
   • violently agitated and turbulent
   Synonym(s)
   • boisterous (what does boisterous mean?)
   • fierce (what does fierce mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • boisterous winds and waves
   • the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound
   • rough weather
   • rough seas
   Similar To
   • stormy (what does stormy mean?)
4. Meaning
   • not shaped by cutting or trimming
   Synonym(s)
   • uncut (what does uncut mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • an uncut diamond
   • rough gemstones
   Antonym(s)
   • cut (what does cut mean?)
   Similar To
   • unsheared (what does unsheared mean?)
5. Meaning
   • full of hardship or trials
   Synonym(s)
   • rocky (what does rocky mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the rocky road to success
   • they were having a rough time
   Similar To
   • difficult (what does difficult mean?)
   • hard (what does hard mean?)
6. Meaning
   • not quite exact or correct
   Synonym(s)
   • approximate (what does approximate mean?)
   • approximative (what does approximative mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the approximate time was 10 o”clock
   • a rough guess
   • a ballpark estimate
   Similar To
   • inexact (what does inexact mean?)
7. Meaning
   • unpleasantly stern
   Synonym(s)
   • harsh (what does harsh mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus
   • the nomad life is rough and hazardous
   Similar To
   • unpleasant (what does unpleasant mean?)
8. Meaning
   • not perfected
   Usage Example(s)
   • a rough draft
   • a few rough sketches
   Similar To
   • unpolished (what does unpolished mean?)
9. Meaning
   • (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
   Usage Example(s)
   • she was a diamond in the rough
   • rough manners
   Similar To
   • unrefined (what does unrefined mean?)
10. Meaning
    • not carefully or expertly made
    Synonym(s)
    • crude (what does crude mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • managed to make a crude splint
    • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
    • rough carpentry
    Similar To
    • unskilled (what does unskilled mean?)
11. Meaning
    • having or caused by an irregular surface
    Synonym(s)
    • unsmooth (what does unsmooth mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • trees with rough bark
    • rough ground
    • a rough ride
    • rough skin
    • rough blankets
    • his unsmooth face
    • unsmooth writing
    Antonym(s)
    • smooth (what does smooth mean?)
    Similar To
    • abrasive (what does abrasive mean?)
    • scratchy (what does scratchy mean?)
    • alligatored (what does alligatored mean?)
    • cracked (what does cracked mean?)
    • barky (what does barky mean?)
    • broken (what does broken mean?)
    • rugged (what does rugged mean?)
    • bullate (what does bullate mean?)
    • bumpy (what does bumpy mean?)
    • jarring (what does jarring mean?)
    • jolting (what does jolting mean?)
    • jolty (what does jolty mean?)
    • chapped (what does chapped mean?)
    • cracked (what does cracked mean?)
    • roughened (what does roughened mean?)
    • corded (what does corded mean?)
    • twilled (what does twilled mean?)
    • costate (what does costate mean?)
    • ribbed (what does ribbed mean?)
    • cragged (what does cragged mean?)
    • craggy (what does craggy mean?)
    • hilly (what does hilly mean?)
    • mountainous (what does mountainous mean?)
    • crushed (what does crushed mean?)
    • homespun(p) (what does homespun(p) mean?)
    • nubby (what does nubby mean?)
    • nubbly (what does nubbly mean?)
    • slubbed (what does slubbed mean?)
    • tweedy (what does tweedy mean?)
    • lepidote (what does lepidote mean?)
    • leprose (what does leprose mean?)
    • scabrous (what does scabrous mean?)
    • scaly (what does scaly mean?)
    • scurfy (what does scurfy mean?)
    • squamulose (what does squamulose mean?)
    • lined (what does lined mean?)
    • seamed (what does seamed mean?)
    • pocked (what does pocked mean?)
    • pockmarked (what does pockmarked mean?)
    • potholed (what does potholed mean?)
    • rocky (what does rocky mean?)
    • bouldery (what does bouldery mean?)
    • bouldered (what does bouldered mean?)
    • stony (what does stony mean?)
    • roughish (what does roughish mean?)
    • rugose (what does rugose mean?)
    • scabby (what does scabby mean?)
    • textured (what does textured mean?)
    • rough-textured (what does rough-textured mean?)
    • verrucose (what does verrucose mean?)
    • warty (what does warty mean?)
    • wartlike (what does wartlike mean?)
    • imbricate (what does imbricate mean?)
    • imbricated (what does imbricated mean?)
    • sandpapery (what does sandpapery mean?)
    • shagged (what does shagged mean?)
    • shaggy (what does shaggy mean?)
    See Also
    • coarse (what does coarse mean?)
    • irregular (what does irregular mean?)
    • nonslippery (what does nonslippery mean?)
    • uneven (what does uneven mean?)
    • unironed (what does unironed mean?)
    • wrinkled (what does wrinkled mean?)
    • unpolished (what does unpolished mean?)
12. Meaning
    • of the margin of a leaf shape
    • having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
    Antonym(s)
    • smooth (what does smooth mean?)
    Similar To
    • angulate (what does angulate mean?)
    • bidentate (what does bidentate mean?)
    • biserrate (what does biserrate mean?)
    • ciliate (what does ciliate mean?)
    • ciliated (what does ciliated mean?)
    • crenate (what does crenate mean?)
    • crenated (what does crenated mean?)
    • scalloped (what does scalloped mean?)
    • crenulate (what does crenulate mean?)
    • crenulated (what does crenulated mean?)
    • crispate (what does crispate mean?)
    • dentate (what does dentate mean?)
    • denticulate (what does denticulate mean?)
    • emarginate (what does emarginate mean?)
    • erose (what does erose mean?)
    • jagged (what does jagged mean?)
    • jaggy (what does jaggy mean?)
    • notched (what does notched mean?)
    • toothed (what does toothed mean?)
    • fimbriate (what does fimbriate mean?)
    • fringed (what does fringed mean?)
    • laciniate (what does laciniate mean?)
    • lacerate (what does lacerate mean?)
    • pectinate (what does pectinate mean?)
    • runcinate (what does runcinate mean?)
    • serrate (what does serrate mean?)
    • serrated (what does serrated mean?)
    • saw-toothed (what does saw-toothed mean?)
    • toothed (what does toothed mean?)
    • notched (what does notched mean?)
    • serrulate (what does serrulate mean?)
    • rimose (what does rimose mean?)
    • spinose (what does spinose mean?)
    See Also
    • simple (what does simple mean?)
    • unsubdivided (what does unsubdivided mean?)
    • compound (what does compound mean?)

ROUGH as ADVERB

1. Meaning
   • with rough motion as over a rough surface
   Synonym(s)
   • roughly (what does roughly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • ride rough
   Pertainym(s)
   • rough (what does rough mean?)
   • unsmooth (what does unsmooth mean?)
2. Meaning
   • with roughness or violence (`rough” is an informal variant for `roughly”)
   Synonym(s)
   • roughly (what does roughly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he was pushed roughly aside
   • they treated him rough
   Pertainym(s)
   • pugnacious (what does pugnacious mean?)
   • rough (what does rough mean?)