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rough

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rough in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. not quite exact or correct
    "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
    approximate  approximative  rough 
  2. violently agitated and turbulent
    "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
    boisterous  fierce  rough 
  3. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
    "a rough ride"
    rough  rocky  bumpy  jolty  jolting  jumpy 
  4. not carefully or expertly made
    "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
    crude  rough 
  5. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    "a gravelly voice"
    grating  gravelly  rasping  raspy  rough  scratchy 
  6. unkind or cruel or uncivil
    "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer"
    harsh  rough 
  7. unpleasantly stern
    "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
    harsh  rough 
  8. 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"
    pugnacious  rough 
  9. full of hardship or trials
    "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
    rocky  rough 
  10. having or caused by an irregular surface
    "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
    rough  unsmooth 
  11. of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
    rough 
  12. not shaped by cutting or trimming
    "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
    uncut  rough 
  13. not perfected
    "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
    rough 
  14. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
    "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
    rough 
noun
  1. the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
    rough 
verb
  1. prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
    rough in  rough  rough out 
adverb
  1. with rough motion as over a rough surface
    "ride rough"
    roughly  rough  roughly  rough 
  2. with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
    "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
    roughly  rough  roughly  rough 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University