roughness

roughness is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being rough. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being rough.
2. noun. harsh or severe speech or behavior

   "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"

   "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

3. noun. an unpolished unrefined quality

   "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"

   Synonyms: crudeness

4. noun. a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

   Synonyms: raggedness

5. noun. the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

   Synonyms: harshness

6. noun. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

   Synonyms: indentation, pitting

7. noun. rowdy behavior

   Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism

8. noun. used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

   Synonyms: choppiness

Synonyms

crudeness, raggedness, harshness, indentation, pitting, disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism, choppiness

Common word forms

roughnesses

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