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Meaning of rough
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rough
adv 1: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal
variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside";
"they treated him rough" [syn: {roughly}, {rough}]
2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn:
{roughly}, {rough}]
adj 1: having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with
rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough
blankets"; "his unsmooth face" [syn: {rough}, {unsmooth}]
[ant: {smooth}]
2: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she
was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
3: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10
o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn:
{approximate}, {approximative}, {rough}]
4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
"they were having a rough time" [syn: {rocky}, {rough}]
5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous},
{fierce}, {rough}]
6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn: {grating}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}, {rough},
{scratchy}]
7: 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" [syn: {pugnacious}, {rough}]
8: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed
or scalloped [ant: {smooth}]
9: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a
rough ride" [syn: {rough}, {rocky}, {bumpy}, {jolty},
{jolting}, {jumpy}] [ant: {smooth}]
10: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond";
"rough gemstones" [syn: {uncut}, {rough}] [ant: {cut}]
11: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
"rough carpentry" [syn: {crude}, {rough}]
12: not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
13: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand
and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" [syn:
{harsh}, {rough}]
14: unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and
unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" [syn: {harsh},
{rough}]
n 1: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the
grass is not cut short
v 1: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn: {rough in},
{rough}, {rough out}]
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