roughness

rough  (rf)

adj. rough·er, rough·est

1. Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth.

2. Coarse or shaggy to the touch: a rough scratchy blanket.

3.

a. Difficult to travel over or through: the rough terrain of the highlands.

b. Characterized by violent motion; turbulent: rough waters.

c. Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather: a rough winter.

d. Unpleasant or difficult: had a rough time during the exam.

4.

a. Boisterous, unruly, uncouth, or rowdy: ran with a rough crowd.

b. Lacking polish or finesse: rough manners.

5. Characterized by carelessness or force, as in manipulating: broke the crystal through rough handling.

6. Harsh to the ear: a rough raspy sound.

7. Being in a natural state: rough diamonds.

8. Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed: a rough drawing; rough carpentry.

n.

1.

a. Rugged overgrown terrain.

b. Sports The part of a golf course left unmowed and uncultivated.

2. The difficult or disagreeable aspect, part, or side: observed politics in the rough when working as an intern on Capitol Hill.

3. Something in an unfinished or hastily worked-out state.

4. A crude unmannered person; a rowdy.

tr.v. roughed, rough·ing, roughs

1.

a. To treat roughly or with physical violence: roughed up his opponent.

b. Sports To treat (an opposing player) with unnecessary roughness, often in violation of the rules: was ejected from the game for roughing the passer.

2. To prepare or indicate in an unfinished form: rough out a house plan.

adv.

In a rough manner; roughly: The engine began to run rough and faltered.

Idiom:

rough it

To live without the usual comforts and conveniences: roughed it in a small hunting shack.

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[Middle English, from Old English rh.]

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rougher n.

roughly adv.

roughness n.

Synonyms: rough, harsh, jagged, rugged, scabrous, uneven
These adjectives apply to what is not smooth but has a coarse, irregular surface. Rough describes something that to the sight or touch has inequalities, as projections or ridges: rough bark; rough, chapped hands.
Something harsh is unpleasantly rough, discordant, or grating: harsh burlap; a harsh voice.
Jagged refers to an edge or surface with irregular projections and indentations: a jagged piece of glass.
Rugged can apply to land surfaces characterized by irregular, often steep rises and slopes: rugged countryside.
Scabrous means rough and scaly to the touch: granular, scabrous skin.
Uneven describes lines or surfaces of which some parts are not level with others: uneven ground; uneven handwriting. See Also Synonyms at rude.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven raggedness texture - the feel of a surface or a fabric; "the wall had a smooth texture" scaliness - the property of being scaly nubbiness, tweediness, coarseness - looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) slub, burl, knot - soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design abrasiveness, harshness, scratchiness - the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions graininess, granularity, coarseness - the quality of being composed of relatively large particles shagginess - roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs bumpiness - the texture of a surface that has many bumps bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines smoothness - a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch; "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"; "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board"
	2.	roughness - the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses harshness unpleasantness - the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather" gruffness, hoarseness, huskiness - a throaty harshness
	3.	roughness - an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" crudeness inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
	4.	roughness - used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather choppiness, rough water storminess - the state of being stormy; "he dreaded the storminess of the North Atlantic in winter"
	5.	roughness - rowdy behavior rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order
	6.	roughness - the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion pitting, indentation corroding, corrosion, erosion - erosion by chemical action
	7.	roughness - harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet" intensification - action that makes something stronger or more extreme

Translations

roughness [ˈrʌfnɪs] N [of hands, surface] → aspereza f; [of sea] → agitación f, encrespamiento m; [of road] → desigualdad f; [of person] (= brusqueness) → brusquedad f; (= crudeness) → tosquedad f; (= violence) → violencia f

roughness [ˈrʌfnɪs] n

[cloth, skin,] → rudesse f; [ground, track, surface] → rugosité f

(= coarseness) [person, manner] → rudesse f

(= violence) [person, game, treatment] → brutalité f

roughness

n

(= unevenness, of ground, path, road) → Unebenheit f; (of surface, skin, hands, cloth) → Rauheit f

(= harshness, of sound) → Härte f; (of voice, tone) → Rauheit f; (of wine) → saurer Geschmack; (of words) → Grobheit f

(= coarseness, of person) → Ungehobeltheit f; (of manners, speech) → Grobheit f, → Rohheit f

(= violence, of person) → Grobheit f, → Rohheit f; (of treatment) → Grobheit f, → Härte f; (of children’s game) → Wildheit f; (of match, sport, work) → Härte f; (of neighbourhood, manners, pub) → Rauheit f

roughness [ˈrʌfnɪs] n (of hands, surface) → ruvidità, ruvidezza; (of person, abruptness) → modi mpl bruschi; (harshness) → durezza, brutalità; (of sea) → violenza; (of road) → cattive condizioni fpl; (of terrain) → asprezza