'Rough' definitions:
Definition of 'rough'
From: WordNet
adverb
With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" [syn: roughly, rough]
adverb
With rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn: roughly, rough]
adjective
Having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" [syn: rough, unsmooth] [ant: smooth]
adjective
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
adjective
Not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn: approximate, approximative, rough]
adjective
Full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" [syn: rocky, rough]
adjective
Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough]
adjective
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy]
adjective
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" [syn: pugnacious, rough]
adjective
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped [ant: smooth]
adjective
Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" [syn: rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy] [ant: smooth]
adjective
Not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" [syn: uncut, rough] [ant: cut]
adjective
Not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: crude, rough]
adjective
Not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
adjective
Unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" [syn: harsh, rough]
adjective
Unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" [syn: harsh, rough]
noun
The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
verb
Definition of 'Rough'
From: GCIDE
- Rough \Rough\, n.
- 1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. [1913 Webster]
- In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. [1913 Webster]
- Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rough'
From: GCIDE
- Rough \Rough\, a. [Compar. Rougher; superl. Roughest.] [OE. rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r?h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf. Rug, n.]
- 1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically: (a) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. "Rough, uneven ways." --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond. (c) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. [1913 Webster]
- More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] (d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. "A visage rough." --Dryden. "Roughsatyrs." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically: (a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. [1913 Webster]
- A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. --Prior. [1913 Webster] (b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions. [1913 Webster]
- On the rough edge of battle. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A quicker and rougher remedy. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. --Locke. [1913 Webster] (c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers. --Pope. [1913 Webster] (d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine. (e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day. [1913 Webster]
- He stayeth his rough wind. --Isa. xxvii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught. [1913 Webster]
- Rough diamond, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior.
- Rough and ready. (a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. "The rough and ready understanding." --Lowell. [1913 Webster] (b) Produced offhand. "Some rough and ready theory." --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rough'
From: GCIDE
- Rough \Rough\, adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly. [1913 Webster]
- Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rough'
From: GCIDE
- Rough \Rough\, v. t.
- 1. To render rough; to roughen. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. [1913 Webster]
- Roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars.
- To rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rough'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- abstruse,
- abuse,
- acerb,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- agitated,
- amaroidal,
- approximate,
- arduous,
- arrested,
- arriviste,
- asperous,
- assault,
- astringent,
- attack,
- austere,
- Babbitt,
- backward,
- bad,
- batter,
- battler,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- beat up,
- belabor,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- blade,
- block out,
- blueprint,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- blustering,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- boor,
- boss,
- bouncy,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- brash,
- brassy,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- brazen,
- brief,
- broken,
- broken ground,
- broken water,
- brokenly,
- brouillon,
- bruise,
- brusque,
- brutal,
- brutally,
- brutishly,
- bucko,
- buffet,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- bumpy,
- cacophonous,
- cad,
- capricious,
- careening,
- cartoon,
- catchy,
- caustic,
- cavalier,
- changeable,
- changing,
- chart,
- choked,
- chop,
- choppily,
- choppy,
- churl,
- churlish,
- clown,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- coarsen,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- complex,
- contender,
- contestant,
- copy,
- corduroy,
- corduroy road,
- corrugated,
- corrugation,
- cracked,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crass,
- critical,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- cross-grained,
- crude,
- cruel,
- crusty,
- cursory,
- curt,
- cutthroat,
- cutting,
- delicate,
- delineation,
- demanding,
- design,
- desperado,
- desultory,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devil,
- diagram,
- different,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discordant,
- discourteous,
- disorderly,
- disputant,
- disrespectful,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- do violence to,
- do wrong by,
- do wrong to,
- double-edged,
- dour,
- draft,
- drastic,
- drawing,
- dry,
- duelist,
- earthy,
- ebauche,
- eccentric,
- edged,
- elevation,
- embryonic,
- enforcer,
- epicier,
- erose,
- erratic,
- escharotic,
- esquisse,
- exacting,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fierce,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- figure,
- firm,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- foggy,
- foilsman,
- formidable,
- formless,
- furious,
- gamecock,
- gaudy,
- general,
- gladiator,
- gnarl,
- goon,
- goose bumps,
- goose pimples,
- gooseflesh,
- gorilla,
- grained,
- grainy,
- granular,
- granulate,
- granulated,
- graph,
- grating,
- great,
- grim,
- gritty,
- gross,
- ground plan,
- groundling,
- gruff,
- gunman,
- guttering,
- guttersnipe,
- guttural,
- hairy,
- halting,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- hatchet man,
- hazy,
- heavy,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- Herculean,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hoarse,
- homespun,
- hood,
- hooligan,
- horripilant,
- horripilate,
- horripilation,
- house plan,
- husky,
- ichnography,
- ill-bred,
- ill-bred fellow,
- ill-mannered,
- ill-treat,
- ill-use,
- immethodical,
- immoderate,
- imperfect,
- impolite,
- improper,
- impulsive,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in the rough,
- incisive,
- inclement,
- incomplete,
- inconsiderate,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecent,
- indelicate,
- inelegant,
- inequal,
- inexact,
- inharmonious,
- injure,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- intricate,
- ironbound,
- irregular,
- irregularly,
- irritating,
- jagged,
- jaggedly,
- jarring,
- jawbreaking,
- jerky,
- jogglety,
- joggling,
- joggly,
- jolting,
- jolty,
- jouster,
- keen,
- killer,
- knight,
- knob,
- knock about,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- knockabout,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- lambaste,
- lay on,
- linsey-woolsey,
- looby,
- lop,
- loud,
- lout,
- loutish,
- low fellow,
- lumpy,
- lurching,
- mad dog,
- malodorous,
- maltreat,
- manhandle,
- mark out,
- maul,
- mean,
- mercurial,
- meretricious,
- metallic,
- militant,
- mishandle,
- mistreat,
- mock-up,
- molest,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- motley,
- mucker,
- mug,
- mutable,
- no picnic,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- nose-tickling,
- not easy,
- nouveau riche,
- obscene,
- operose,
- outline,
- outrage,
- outrageous,
- oversimple,
- parvenu,
- patchy,
- pattern,
- peasant,
- penetrating,
- Philistine,
- piercing,
- pimple,
- pimply,
- piquant,
- pitted,
- plot,
- plug-ugly,
- pluralistic,
- pocky,
- poignant,
- pommel,
- pornographic,
- potholed,
- profile,
- projection,
- proximate,
- pummel,
- pungent,
- punk,
- quarreler,
- quick,
- ragged,
- raggedly,
- raging,
- rambling,
- rambunctious,
- rampageous,
- rank,
- rasping,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- raw,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- ribald,
- ridiculous,
- rigorous,
- rioter,
- ripple,
- ripply,
- rival,
- roiled,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- rotten,
- rough draft,
- rough up,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- roughcast,
- roughen,
- roughhewn,
- roughly,
- roughneck,
- roupy,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- ruffian,
- ruffled,
- rugged,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- sabreur,
- sandpaper,
- savage,
- savagely,
- scabrous,
- scathing,
- scraggy,
- scrapper,
- scrappy,
- scuffler,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shapeless,
- sharp,
- short,
- simplistic,
- skeleton,
- sketch,
- sketchy,
- smutty,
- snatchy,
- snippy,
- solid,
- sour,
- Spartan,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spiny,
- splitting,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- squabbler,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- stabbing,
- staggering,
- steep,
- stern,
- stertorous,
- stinging,
- stormy,
- strangled,
- strenuous,
- strident,
- stridulous,
- stringent,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- stud,
- stunted,
- surly,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- table,
- tart,
- tempestuous,
- textured,
- thick,
- thorny,
- thrash,
- throaty,
- thug,
- ticklish,
- tilter,
- tinny,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- trace,
- trenchant,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- truculent,
- trying,
- turbulent,
- tussler,
- unbecoming,
- unblown,
- uncertain,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncompleted,
- unconscionable,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- undecorous,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- undressed,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unevenly,
- unfair,
- unfashioned,
- unfeeling,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unfortunate,
- ungentle,
- ungentlemanly,
- ungodly,
- ungracious,
- unhewn,
- unjust,
- unkempt,
- unlabored,
- unladylike,
- unlevel,
- unlicked,
- unlucky,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unmusical,
- unorthodox,
- unpleasant,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unrefined,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unseemly,
- unsettled,
- unshaped,
- unsmooth,
- unsparing,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- untreated,
- ununiform,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- uphill,
- upstart,
- vague,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- violently,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- vulgar,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- wallop,
- wandering,
- washboard,
- wavering,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wimpled,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- working drawing,
- wrangler,
- yahoo,
- yokel
Words containing 'Rough'
- In the rough,
- Roughings,
- Roughly,
- Roughness,
- To rough it,
- rough in,
- rough out,
- rough up,
- Rough Rock,
- Rough and ready,
- Rough breathing,
- Rough diamond,
- Rough log,
- Roughing rolls,
- Roughing-in,
- diamond in the rough,
- rough bindweed,
- rough bristlegrass,
- rough bryony,
- rough cut,
- rough dab,
- rough draft,
- rough drawing,
- rough fish,
- rough horsetail,
- rough pea,
- rough ray,
- rough rider,
- rough sketch,
- rough sledding,
- rough water,
- Rough Rock, AZ,
- Rough-footed,
- Rough-grained,
- Rough-legged,
- rough green snake,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- rough-cut,
- rough-dry,
- rough-haired,
- rough-hew,
- rough-house,
- rough-sand,
- rough-spoken,
- rough-textured,
- rough-leaved aster,
- rough-legged buzzard,
- rough-legged hawk,
- rough-skin plum,
- rough-skinned newt,
- rough-stemmed goldenrod