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"the nomad life is rough and hazardous"adjectiveunpleasantly stern
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"rough weather" "rough seas"adjectiveviolently agitated and turbulent
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"they were rough and determined fighting men"adjectiveready and able to resort to force or violence
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"rough gemstones"adjectivenot shaped by cutting or trimming
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"he was pushed roughly aside" "they treated him rough"adverbwith roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
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"rough carpentry"adjectivenot carefully or expertly made
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"a rough answer"adjectiveunkind or cruel or uncivil
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adjectiveunpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
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"they were having a rough time"adjectivefull of hardship or trials
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"ride rough"adverbwith rough motion as over a rough surface
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"trees with rough bark" "rough ground" "rough skin" "rough blankets"adjectivehaving or caused by an irregular surface
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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 wartyOpposite: -
verbprepare in preliminary or sketchy formtype of:
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"a rough guess"adjectivenot quite exact or correct
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"a rough ride"adjectivecausing or characterized by jolts and irregular movementsOpposite:
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"a rough draft" "a few rough sketches"adjectivenot perfected
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"she was a diamond in the rough" "rough manners"adjective(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
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adjectiveof the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
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nounthe part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut shortpart of:
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hard difficult simple broken prepare site aggressive harsh rocky crushed cracked fierce unpleasant lined compound shaggy roughly crude coarse jumpy irregular wrinkled bumpy rugged stormy unkind shagged uneven toothed jagged scaly approximate grating scratchy serrated stony uncut mountainous abrasive chapped tweedy lacerated boisterous raspy hilly ribbed rasping homespun roughness textured unrefined unskilled scabby pockmarked warty unpolished scalloped cacophonous craggy pugnacious gravelly barky notched corded cragged imbricate nubbly jolty ciliate scabrous inexact fringed lacerate nubby seamed jolting serrate unsheared cacophonic unsmooth alligatored bouldered bouldery bullate coarse-textured costate imbricated lepidote leprose pebbly pocked potholed rock-ribbed rockbound rough-textured roughened roughish rugose sandpapery saw-like scurfy shingly slubbed squamulose twilled verrucose wartlike nonslippery unironed rough in rough out approximative crenulate crenulated crispate dentate denticulate bidentate emarginate erose fimbriate pectinate serrulate ciliated biserrate rimose spinose crenate crenated saw-toothed jaggy laciniate runcinate unsubdivided land site