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1. Having or caused by an irregular surface
   "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"
   - unsmooth
    
2. (of persons or behaviour) lacking refinement or finesse
   "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
    
3. Not quite exact or correct
   "a rough guess"
   - approximate, approximative
    
4. Full of hardship or trials
   "they were having a rough time"
   - rocky
    
5. Violently agitated and turbulent
   "rough weather"; "rough seas"
   - boisterous, fierce
    
6. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
   - grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy
    
7. Ready and able to resort to force or violence
   "they were rough and determined fighting men"
   - pugnacious
    
8. Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
    
9. Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
   "a rough ride"
   - rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy
    
10. Not shaped by cutting or trimming
    "rough gemstones"
    - uncut
     
11. Not carefully or expertly made
    "rough carpentry"
    - crude
     
12. Not perfected
    "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
     
13. Unpleasantly stern
    "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
    - harsh
     
14. Unkind or cruel or uncivil
    "a rough answer"
    - harsh

1. Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
   - rough in, rough out

1. With roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly')
   "they treated him rough"
   - roughly
    
2. With rough motion as over a rough surface
   "ride rough"
   - roughly

1. The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

Sounds like: ruff

Derived forms: rougher, roughed, roughest, roughing, roughs

See also: abrasive, aggressive, alligatored, barky, bidentate, biserrate, bouldered, bouldery, broken, bullate, bumpy, cacophonic, cacophonous, chapped, ciliate, ciliated, coarse, coarse-textured, compound, corded, costate, cracked, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenulate, crenulated, crispate, crushed, dentate, denticulate, difficult, emarginate, erose, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gravelly, hard, harsh, hilly, homespun, imbricate, imbricated, inexact, irregular, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, laciniate, lepidote, leprose, lined, mountainous, nonslippery, notched, nubbly, nubby, pebbly, pectinate, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, ribbed, rimose, rockbound, rock-ribbed [N. Amer], rocky, roughened, roughish, roughness, rough-textured, rugged, rugose, runcinate, sandpapery, saw-like, saw-toothed, scabby, scabrous, scalloped, scaly, scratchy, scurfy, seamed, serrate, serrated, serrulate, shagged, shaggy, shingly, simple, slubbed, spinose, squamulose, stony, stormy, textured, toothed, tweedy, twilled, uneven, unironed, unkind, unpleasant, unpolished, unrefined, unsheared, unskilled, unsubdivided, verrucose, wartlike, warty, wrinkled

Type of: land site, prepare, site

Antonym: smooth

Part of: golf course, links course

Encyclopedia: Rough