Antonyms of rough from BoostVocab

rough

/rəf/

Synonyms of rough Antonyms of rough Examples of rough Usage of rough Parts of rough Definition that contains rough Words sounding like rough Explanation of rough

adjective
unpleasantly stern
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"the nomad life is rough and hazardous"

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harsh unpleasant
adjective
violently agitated and turbulent
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"rough weather" "rough seas"

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boisterous fierce stormy
adjective
ready and able to resort to force or violence
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"they were rough and determined fighting men"

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pugnacious aggressive
adjective
not shaped by cutting or trimming
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"rough gemstones"

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uncut unsheared
adverb
with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
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"he was pushed roughly aside" "they treated him rough"

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roughly
adjective
not carefully or expertly made
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"rough carpentry"

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crude unskilled
adjective
unkind or cruel or uncivil
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"a rough answer"

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harsh unkind
adjective
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
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grating gravelly rasping raspy scratchy cacophonic cacophonous
adjective
full of hardship or trials
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"they were having a rough time"

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rocky difficult hard
adverb
with rough motion as over a rough surface
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"ride rough"

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roughly
adjective
having or caused by an irregular surface
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"trees with rough bark" "rough ground" "rough skin" "rough blankets"

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unsmooth tweedy abrasive alligatored barky bouldered bouldery broken bullate bumpy chapped coarse-textured corded costate cracked cragged craggy crushed gravelly hilly homespun imbricate imbricated lepidote leprose lined mountainous nubbly nubby pebbly pocked pockmarked potholed ribbed rock-ribbed rockbound rocky rough-textured roughened roughish rugged rugose sandpapery saw-like scabby scabrous scaly scratchy scurfy seamed shagged shaggy shingly slubbed squamulose stony textured twilled verrucose wartlike warty

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smooth
verb
prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
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rough in rough out

type of:
prepare
adjective
not quite exact or correct
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"a rough guess"

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approximate approximative inexact
adjective
causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
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"a rough ride"

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bumpy jolting jolty jumpy rocky

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smooth
adjective
not perfected
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"a rough draft" "a few rough sketches"

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unpolished
adjective
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
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"she was a diamond in the rough" "rough manners"

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unrefined
adjective
of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
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crenulate crenulated crispate dentate denticulate bidentate emarginate erose fimbriate fringed pectinate serrated serrulate ciliate ciliated biserrate rimose spinose crenate crenated toothed saw-toothed jagged jaggy lacerate lacerated laciniate scalloped notched serrate runcinate

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smooth
noun
the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
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type of:
land site site

part of:
links course golf course

Antonyms of rough

smooth

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