rough

rough is a 5-letter English word with 37 senses as noun, adverb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 37 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
2. noun. Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.
3. noun. Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
4. noun. Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
5. noun. Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
6. noun. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
7. noun. Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
8. noun. Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
9. noun. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
10. noun. Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
11. noun. Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
12. noun. Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
13. noun. Produced offhand.
14. noun. Boisterous weather.
15. noun. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
16. adverb. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
17. transitive verb. To render rough; to roughen.
18. transitive verb. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
19. transitive verb. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
20. noun. the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
21. verb. prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
22. adjective. ready and able to resort to force or violence- Herman Melville

    "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"

    "they were rough and determined fighting men"

    Synonyms: pugnacious

23. adjective. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

    "a gravelly voice"

    Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy

24. adjective. violently agitated and turbulent- Ezra Pound

    "boisterous winds and waves"

    "the fierce thunders roar me their music"

    Synonyms: boisterous, fierce

25. adjective. not shaped by cutting or trimming

    "an uncut diamond"

    "rough gemstones"

    Synonyms: uncut

26. adjective. full of hardship or trials

    "the rocky road to success"

    "they were having a rough time"

    Synonyms: rocky

27. adjective. not quite exact or correct

    "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"

    "a rough guess"

    Synonyms: approximate, approximative

28. adjective. unkind or cruel or uncivil

    "had harsh words"

    "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"

    Synonyms: harsh

29. adjective. unpleasantly stern

    "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"

    "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"

    Synonyms: harsh

30. adjective. not perfected

    "a rough draft"

    "a few rough sketches"

31. adjective. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

    "she was a diamond in the rough"

    "rough manners"

32. adjective. not carefully or expertly made

    "managed to make a crude splint"

    "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"

    Synonyms: crude

33. adjective. having or caused by an irregular surface

    "trees with rough bark"

    "rough ground"

    Synonyms: unsmooth

34. adjective. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

    "a rough ride"

    Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky

35. adjective. of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
36. adverb. with rough motion as over a rough surface

    "ride rough"

    Synonyms: roughly

37. adverb. with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

    "he was pushed roughly aside"

    "they treated him rough"

    Synonyms: roughly

Synonyms

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

Common word forms

roughs, roughed, roughen, rougher, roughly, roughest, roughing, roughness

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