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Overview of adj rough The adj rough has 12 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (13) rough, unsmooth -- (having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth writing") 2. (2) rough -- ((of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners") 3. (2) approximate, approximative, rough, ballpark -- (not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate") 4. (1) rocky, rough -- (full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time") 5. (1) boisterous, fierce, rough -- (violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas") 6. (1) grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough -- (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice") 7. (1) pugnacious, 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") 8. rough -- ((botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped) 9. uncut, rough -- (not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones") 10. crude, rough -- (not carefully or expertly made "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry") 11. rough -- (not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches") 12. harsh, rough -- (unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous") Antonyms of adj rough 12 senses of rough Sense 1 rough (vs. smooth), unsmooth smooth (vs. rough) => creaseless, uncreased => fast => glassy => glossy, satin(postnominal), satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick => seamless, unlined, unseamed => velvet, velvety => waxlike, waxy, ceraceous => marmoreal, marmorean Sense 2 rough INDIRECT (VIA unrefined) -> refined Sense 3 approximate, approximative, rough, ballpark INDIRECT (VIA inexact) -> exact Sense 4 rocky, rough INDIRECT (VIA difficult) -> easy Sense 5 boisterous, fierce, rough INDIRECT (VIA stormy) -> calm Sense 6 grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough INDIRECT (VIA cacophonous) -> euphonious, euphonous Sense 7 pugnacious, rough INDIRECT (VIA aggressive) -> unaggressive, nonaggressive Sense 8 rough (vs. smooth) smooth (vs. rough) => entire => repand => sinuate => undulate => unnotched, untoothed Sense 9 uncut (vs. cut), rough Sense 10 crude, rough INDIRECT (VIA unskilled) -> skilled Sense 11 rough INDIRECT (VIA unpolished) -> polished Sense 12 harsh, rough INDIRECT (VIA unpleasant) -> pleasant Similarity of adj rough 12 senses of rough Sense 1 rough (vs. smooth), unsmooth => abrasive, scratchy => alligatored, cracked => barky => broken, rugged => bullate => bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty => chapped, cracked, roughened => corded, pique, twill, twilled => corduroy(postnominal), log(postnominal) => costate, ribbed => cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous => crushed => homespun(prenominal), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy => lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy => squamulose => lined, seamed => pocked, pockmarked, potholed => puckered => rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony => roughish => rugose => scabby => textured, rough-textured => verrucose, warty, wartlike => imbricate, imbricated => sandpapery => shagged, shaggy Also See-> coarse#1; irregular#1; nonslippery#1; uneven#1; unironed#1, wrinkled#3; unpolished#1 Sense 2 rough => unrefined (vs. refined) Sense 3 approximate, approximative, rough, ballpark => inexact (vs. exact) Sense 4 rocky, rough => difficult (vs. easy), hard Sense 5 boisterous, fierce, rough => stormy (vs. calm) Sense 6 grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough => cacophonous (vs. euphonious), cacophonic Sense 7 pugnacious, rough => aggressive (vs. unaggressive) Sense 8 rough (vs. smooth) => angulate => bidentate => biserrate => ciliate, ciliated => crenate, crenated, scalloped => crenulate, crenulated => crispate => dentate => denticulate => emarginate => erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed => fimbriate => fringed, laciniate => lacerate => pectinate => runcinate => serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched => serrulate => rimose => spinose Also See-> simple#6, unsubdivided#1; compound#1 Sense 9 uncut (vs. cut), rough => unsheared Sense 10 crude, rough => unskilled (vs. skilled) Sense 11 rough => unpolished (vs. polished) Sense 12 harsh, rough => unpleasant (vs. pleasant) Attributes of adj rough Familiarity of adj rough rough used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 12) Grep of adj rough rough rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble rough-spoken rough-textured roughdried roughened roughhewn roughish roughshod see-through thorough through Overview of adj rough The adj rough has 12 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (13) rough, unsmooth -- (having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth writing") 2. (2) rough -- ((of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners") 3. (2) approximate, approximative, rough, ballpark -- (not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate") 4. (1) rocky, rough -- (full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time") 5. (1) boisterous, fierce, rough -- (violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas") 6. (1) grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough -- (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice") 7. (1) pugnacious, 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") 8. rough -- ((botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped) 9. uncut, rough -- (not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones") 10. crude, rough -- (not carefully or expertly made "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry") 11. rough -- (not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches") 12. harsh, rough -- (unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous")
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