rough

Meanings

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
• having or caused by an irregular surface
  • "trees with rough bark"
  • "rough ground"
  • "rough skin"
  • "rough blankets"
• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
  • "she was a diamond in the rough"
  • "rough manners"
• not quite exact or correct
  • "a rough guess"
• full of hardship or trials
  • "they were having a rough time"
• violently agitated and turbulent; ; - Ezra Pound
  • "rough weather"
  • "rough seas"
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
• ready and able to resort to force or violence; - Herman Melville
  • "they were rough and determined fighting men"
• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
  • "a rough ride"
• not shaped by cutting or trimming
  • "rough gemstones"
• not carefully or expertly made
  • "rough carpentry"
• not perfected
  • "a rough draft"
  • "a few rough sketches"
• unpleasantly stern
  • "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
• unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • "a rough answer"
• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
  • "he was pushed roughly aside"
  • "they treated him rough"
• with rough motion as over a rough surface
  • "ride rough"

Synonyms

approximate, approximative, boisterous, bumpy, crude, fierce, grating, gravelly, harsh, jolting, jolty, jumpy, pugnacious, rasping, raspy, rocky, rough in, rough out, roughly, scratchy, uncut, unsmooth