ROUGHSHOD as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • unjustly domineering
   Synonym(s)
   • heavy-handed (what does heavy-handed mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • incensed at the government’’s heavy-handed economic economic policies
   • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
   Similar To
   • domineering (what does domineering mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
   Synonym(s)
   • barbarous (what does barbarous mean?)
   • brutal (what does brutal mean?)
   • cruel (what does cruel mean?)
   • fell (what does fell mean?)
   • savage (what does savage mean?)
   • vicious (what does vicious mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a barbarous crime
   • brutal beatings
   • cruel tortures
   • Stalin’’s roughshod treatment of the kulaks
   • a savage slap
   • vicious kicks
   Similar To
   • inhumane (what does inhumane mean?)
3. Meaning
   • (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
   Similar To
   • shod (what does shod mean?)
   • shodden (what does shodden mean?)
   • shoed (what does shoed mean?)