roughshod

roughshod is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 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 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
2. adjective. unjustly domineering

   "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"

   "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

3. adjective. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

   "a barbarous crime"

   "brutal beatings"

   Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious

4. adjective. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Synonyms

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious

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