Hyphenation of Rough

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Rough

Definitions of Rough:

1.
The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
2.
Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
3.
Having or caused by an irregular surface
Trees with rough bark Rough ground Rough skin Rough blankets His unsmooth face
4.
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
She was a diamond in the rough Rough manners
5.
Not quite exact or correct
The approximate time was 10 o'clock A rough guess A ballpark estimate
6.
Full of hardship or trials
The rocky road to success They were having a rough time
7.
Violently agitated and turbulent
Boisterous winds and waves The fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound Rough weather Rough seas
8.
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
A gravelly voice
9.
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
10.
Of the margin of a leaf shape
Having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
11.
Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
A rough ride
12.
Not shaped by cutting or trimming
An uncut diamond Rough gemstones
13.
Not carefully or expertly made
Managed to make a crude splint A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them Rough carpentry
14.
Not perfected
A rough draft A few rough sketches
15.
Unpleasantly stern
Wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus The nomad life is rough and hazardous
16.
Unkind or cruel or uncivil
Had harsh words A harsh and unlovable old tyrant A rough answer
17.
With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
He was pushed roughly aside They treated him rough
18.
With rough motion as over a rough surface
Ride rough

Synonyms of Rough:

adj rough, unsmooth, abrasive, scratchy, alligatored, cracked, barky, broken, rugged, bullate, bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty, chapped, cracked, roughened, corded, twilled, costate, ribbed, cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous, crushed, homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy, lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy, squamulose, lined, seamed, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony, roughish, rugose, scabby, textured, rough-textured, verrucose, warty, wartlike, imbricate, imbricated, sandpapery, shagged, shaggy, coarse, irregular, nonslippery, uneven, unironed, wrinkled, unpolished
adj unrefined
adj approximate, approximative, inexact
adj rocky, difficult, hard
adj boisterous, fierce, stormy
adj grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, cacophonous, cacophonic
adj pugnacious, aggressive
adj rough, angulate, bidentate, biserrate, ciliate, ciliated, crenate, crenated, scalloped, crenulate, crenulated, crispate, dentate, denticulate, emarginate, erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed, fimbriate, fringed, laciniate, lacerate, pectinate, runcinate, serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched, serrulate, rimose, spinose, simple, unsubdivided, compound
adj uncut, unsheared
adj crude, unskilled
adj unpolished
adj harsh, unpleasant
noun site, land site
verbrough in, rough out, prepare
adv roughly
adv roughly

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