rough

Adjective

• unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • had harsh words
    
  • a harsh and unlovable old tyrant
    
  • a rough answer
    

• unpleasantly stern
  • wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus
    
  • the nomad life is rough and hazardous
    

• not perfected
  • a rough draft
    
  • a few rough sketches
    

• not carefully or expertly made
  • managed to make a crude splint
    
  • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
    
  • rough carpentry
    

• not shaped by cutting or trimming
  • an uncut diamond
    
  • rough gemstones
    

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
  • a rough ride
    

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• 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
    

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  • a gravelly voice
    

• violently agitated and turbulent
  • boisterous winds and waves
    
  • the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound
    
  • rough weather
    
  • rough seas
    

• full of hardship or trials
  • the rocky road to success
    
  • they were having a rough time
    

• not quite exact or correct
  • the approximate time was 10 o'clock
    
  • a rough guess
    
  • a ballpark estimate
    

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
  • she was a diamond in the rough
    
  • rough manners
    

• having or caused by an irregular surface
  • trees with rough bark
    
  • rough ground
    
  • rough skin
    
  • rough blankets
    
  • his unsmooth face
    

Noun

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

Adverb

• with rough motion as over a rough surface
  • ride rough
    

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
  • he was pushed roughly aside
    
  • they treated him rough
    

Verb

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

Related words

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