'Roughness' definitions:
Definition of 'roughness'
From: WordNet
noun
A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven [syn: roughness, raggedness] [ant: smoothness]
noun
The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses [syn: harshness, roughness]
noun
An unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" [syn: crudeness, roughness]
noun
Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather [syn: choppiness, roughness, rough water]
noun
noun
The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: pitting, roughness, indentation]
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Harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"
Definition of 'Roughness'
From: GCIDE
- Roughness \Rough"ness\, n. The quality or state of being rough. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roughness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abruptness,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acidulousness,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- acuteness,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- aggressiveness,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- animality,
- arrhythmia,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- atrocity,
- austerity,
- bad taste,
- barbarism,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- bearishness,
- beastliness,
- bite,
- bitingness,
- bitterness,
- bloodlust,
- bluntness,
- bombasticness,
- boorishness,
- brashness,
- brokenness,
- brusqueness,
- brusquerie,
- brutality,
- bump,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- callowness,
- capriciousness,
- CAT,
- causticity,
- ceiling,
- choppiness,
- churlishness,
- clumsiness,
- coarse-grainedness,
- coarseness,
- cracked voice,
- crassness,
- crosswind,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- crustiness,
- cumbrousness,
- curtness,
- cuttingness,
- destructiveness,
- desultoriness,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- discord,
- dryness,
- dysphemism,
- earthiness,
- eccentricity,
- edge,
- empty space,
- erraticness,
- extremity,
- favorable wind,
- ferociousness,
- fibrillation,
- fierceness,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- fluctuation,
- fog,
- force,
- front,
- furiousness,
- gaudiness,
- Gothicism,
- gracelessness,
- graininess,
- granularity,
- granulation,
- greenness,
- grimness,
- grip,
- grittiness,
- grossness,
- gruffness,
- gutturalism,
- gutturality,
- gutturalness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- head wind,
- heaviness,
- high-pressure area,
- hoarseness,
- hole,
- huskiness,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- immatureness,
- immaturity,
- impetuosity,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inclemency,
- inconcinnity,
- inconstancy,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- inhumanity,
- intensity,
- intermittence,
- ionosphere,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- jetstream,
- keenness,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- leadenness,
- loudness,
- low-pressure area,
- malignity,
- mercilessness,
- meretriciousness,
- mindlessness,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- nastiness,
- nondevelopment,
- nonuniformity,
- obscenity,
- overcast,
- oversimplicity,
- oversimplification,
- patchiness,
- piquancy,
- pitilessness,
- pocket,
- poignancy,
- point,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- pungency,
- raspiness,
- raucity,
- rawness,
- reductionism,
- ribaldry,
- rigor,
- rudeness,
- savagery,
- scrapiness,
- scratchiness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- shortness,
- simplism,
- slipshod construction,
- soup,
- sourness,
- space,
- spasticity,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- sternness,
- stertorousness,
- stiltedness,
- sting,
- stratosphere,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- substratosphere,
- surliness,
- tail wind,
- tartness,
- tastelessness,
- teeth,
- terrorism,
- the rough,
- thickness,
- throatiness,
- trenchancy,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- truculence,
- turbulence,
- turgidity,
- ugliness,
- uncertainty,
- uncouthness,
- uncultivation,
- undevelopment,
- uneuphoniousness,
- unevenness,
- unfinish,
- unfinishedness,
- unfledgedness,
- ungentleness,
- ungracefulness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unpredictability,
- unrefinement,
- unripeness,
- unseemliness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsystematicness,
- unwieldiness,
- vandalism,
- variability,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- whimsicality,
- wobble
Words containing 'Roughness'
- In the rough,
- Rough,
- Roughings,
- Roughly,
- 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