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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.

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rough

Adjective

1. not smooth; uneven or irregular

2. not using enough care or gentleness

3. difficult or unpleasant: tomorrow will be a rough day

4. approximate: a rough guess

5. violent or stormy

6. troubled by violence or crime: he lived in a rough area

7. incomplete or basic: a rough draft

8. lacking refinement: a rough shelter

9. (of ground) covered with scrub or rubble

10. harsh or grating to the ear

11. harsh or sharp: the rough interrogation of my father

12. unfair: rough luck

13. Informal ill: Feeling rough? A good stiff drink will soon fix that!

14. shaggy or hairy: the rough wool of her sweater

15. (of work etc.) requiring physical rather than mental effort: wear gloves for any rough work

Verb

1. to make rough

2. rough it Informal to live without the usual comforts of life

Noun

1. rough ground

2. a sketch or preliminary piece of artwork

3. Informal a violent person

4. in rough in an unfinished or crude state

5. the rough Golf the part of the course beside the fairways where the grass is untrimmed

6. the unpleasant side of something: you have to take the rough with the smooth

Adverb

1. roughly

2. sleep rough to spend the night in the open without shelter

See also rough out, rough up [Old English rūh]

roughly adv

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rough - the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short golf course, links course - course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
Verb	1.	rough - prepare in preliminary or sketchy form rough in, rough out prepare - to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech"
Adj.	1.	rough - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" unsmooth uneven - not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain" unironed, wrinkled - (of linens or clothes) not ironed; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans" unpolished - not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes" irregular - contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices" coarse, harsh - of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" nonslippery - not slippery; not likely to slip or skid smooth - having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
	2.	rough - (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
	3.	rough - not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" approximate, approximative inexact - not exact
	4.	rough - full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" rocky difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
	5.	rough - violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" boisterous, fierce stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"
	6.	rough - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" grating, rasping, raspy, gravelly, scratchy cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten
	7.	rough - 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" pugnacious aggressive - having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"
	8.	rough - of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants unsubdivided, simple - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions compound - composed of more than one part; "compound leaves are composed of several lobes; "compound flower heads" smooth - of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
	9.	rough - causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky smooth - of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence; "a smooth ride"
	10.	rough - not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" uncut
	11.	rough - not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" crude unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"
	12.	rough - not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" unpolished - not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"
	13.	rough - unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" harsh unpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
	14.	rough - unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" harsh unkind - lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"
Adv.	1.	rough - with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" roughly colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	2.	rough - with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" roughly

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rough

adjective 1. uneven, broken, rocky, rugged, irregular, jagged, bumpy, stony, craggy << OPPOSITE even

adjective 2. coarse, disordered, tangled, hairy, fuzzy, bushy, shaggy, dishevelled, uncut, unshaven, tousled, bristly, unshorn << OPPOSITE smooth

adjective 3. boisterous, hard, tough, rugged, arduous

adjective 4. ungracious, blunt, rude, coarse, bluff, curt, churlish, bearish, brusque, uncouth, unrefined, inconsiderate, impolite, loutish, untutored, discourteous, unpolished, indelicate, uncivil, uncultured, unceremonious, ill-bred, unmannerly, ill-mannered << OPPOSITE refined

adjective 5. unpleasant, hard, difficult, tough, uncomfortable, drastic, unjust << OPPOSITE easy

adjective 6. (Informal) unwell, poorly (informal) ill, upset, sick, crook Austral., N.Z. (informal) rotten (informal) below par, off colour, under the weather (informal) not a hundred per cent (informal) ropey or ropy Brit. (informal)

adjective 7. approximate, estimated << OPPOSITE exact

adjective 8. vague, general, sketchy, imprecise, hazy, foggy, amorphous, inexact

adjective 9. basic, quick, raw, crude, unfinished, incomplete, hasty, imperfect, rudimentary, sketchy, cursory, shapeless, rough-and-ready, unrefined, formless, rough-hewn, untutored, unpolished << OPPOSITE complete

adjective 10. rough-hewn, crude, uncut, unpolished, raw, undressed, unprocessed, unhewn, unwrought

adjective 11. stormy, wild, turbulent, agitated, choppy, tempestuous, inclement, squally << OPPOSITE calm

adjective 12. grating, harsh, jarring, raucous, rasping, husky, discordant, gruff, cacophonous, unmusical, inharmonious << OPPOSITE soft

adjective 13. harsh, tough, sharp, severe, nasty, cruel, rowdy, curt, unfeeling << OPPOSITE gentle

noun 14. outline, draft, mock-up, preliminary sketch, suggestion

noun 15. (Informal) thug, tough, casual, rowdy, hoon Austral., N.Z. bully boy, bruiser, ruffian, lager lout, roughneck (slang) ned (slang) cougan Austral. (slang) scozza Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang) >> rough and ready 16. makeshift, adequate, crude, provisional, improvised, sketchy, thrown together, cobbled together, stopgap

17. unrefined, shabby, untidy, unkempt, unpolished, ungroomed, ill-groomed, daggy Austral., N.Z. (informal) >> rough and tumble 18. fight, struggle, scrap (informal) brawl, scuffle, punch-up Brit. (informal) fracas, affray Law dust-up (informal) shindig (informal) donnybrook, scrimmage, roughhouse (slang) shindy (informal) melee or mêlée, biffo Austral. (slang)

19. disorderly, rough, scrambled, scrambling, irregular, rowdy, boisterous, haphazard, indisciplined

rough someone up (Informal) beat up, batter, thrash, do over Brit., Austral., N.Z. (slang) work over (slang) mistreat, manhandle, maltreat, bash up (informal) beat the living daylights out of (informal) knock about or around, beat or knock seven bells out of (informal)

rough something out outline, plan, draft, sketch, suggest, block out, delineate, adumbrate

Translations

rough [rʌf] adj [skin, surface] → áspero; [terrain] → accidentado; [road] → desigual; [voice] → bronco; [person, manner] (= coarse); tosco, grosero; [weather] → borrascoso; [treatment] → brutal; [sea] → embravecido; [cloth] → basto; [plan] → preliminar; [guess] → aproximado (= violent); violento

n (GOLF): in the rough → en las hierbas altas;

to rough it → vivir sin comodidades;

to sleep rough (BRIT) → pasar la noche al raso;

the sea is rough today → el mar está agitado hoy;

to have a rough time (of it) → pasar una mala racha;

rough estimate → cálculo aproximado

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rough [rʌf] adj [cloth, skin] → rêche, rugueux/euse; [terrain] → accidenté(e); [path] → rocailleux/euse; [voice] → rauque, rude; [person, manner] (= coarse); rude, fruste: (= violent); brutal(e); [district, weather] → mauvais(e); [sea] → houleux/euse; [plan] → ébauché(e); [guess] → approximatif/ive

n (Golf) → rough m

vt to rough it → vivre à la dure;

the sea is rough today → la mer est agitée aujourd'hui;

to have a rough time (of it) → en voir de dures;

rough estimate → approximation f;

to play rough → jouer avec brutalité;

to sleep rough (Brit) → coucher à la dure;

to feel rough (Brit) → être mal fichu(e)

rough out vt (= draft) → ébaucher

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rough [rʌf] adj → rau;

(terrain, road) → uneben;

(person, plan, drawing, guess) → grob;

(life, conditions, journey) → hart;

(sea, crossing) → stürmisch

n (Golf);

in the rough → im Rough vt to rough it → primitiv or ohne Komfort leben;

the sea is rough today → die See ist heute stürmisch;

to have a rough time → eine harte Zeit durchmachen;

can you give me a rough idea of the cost? → können Sie mir eine ungefähre Vorstellung von den Kosten geben?;

to feel rough (Brit) → sich elend fühlen;

to sleep rough (Brit) → im Freien übernachten;

to play rough (fig) → auf die grobe Tour kommen

rough out rough vt (drawing, idea etc) → skizzieren

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rough [rʌf] adj → aspro/a; [person, manner] (= coarse); rozzo/a, aspro/a: (= violent); brutale; [district] → malfamato/a; [weather] → cattivo/a; [plan] → abbozzato/a; [guess] → approssimativo/a

n (GOLF) → macchia;

rough estimate → approssimazione f;

to rough it → far vita dura;

to play rough → far il gioco pesante;

to sleep rough (BRIT) → dormire all'addiaccio;

to feel rough (BRIT) → sentirsi male;

to have a rough time (of it) → passare un periodaccio;

the sea is rough today → c'è mare grosso oggi

rough out vt (= draft) → abbozzare