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Meaning of rough
1 definition found 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}]
Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.
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