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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:
Definition that contains rough
- robust rough and crude
- scaly rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- choppy rough with small waves
- burr rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
- scabrous rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- genus anchusa rough and hairy Old World herbs
- nogging rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame
- lean-to rough shelter whose roof has only one slope
- country-bred rough and uncouth
- bouvier des flandres rough-coated breed used originally in Belgium for herding and guarding cattle