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Rough Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Rough? [n] the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short [adv] with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [adv] with roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside"; (`rough' is informal as in"they treated him rough") [adj] 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" [adj] unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [adj] not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" [adj] full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" [adj] not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [adj] unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" [adj] not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" [adj] (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" [adj] not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [adj] 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" [adj] (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped [v] prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [v] draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Rough: abrasive \| aggressive \| alligatored \| angulate \| approximate \| approximative \| ballpark \| barky \| bidentate \| biserrate \| boisterous \| bouldered \| bouldery \| broken \| bullate \| bumpy \| cacophonic \| cacophonous \| chapped \| ciliate \| ciliated \| corded \| corduroy(a) \| costate \| cracked \| cragged \| craggy \| crenate \| crenated \| crenulate \| crenulated \| crispate \| crude \| crushed \| dentate \| denticulate \| difficult \| draft \| emarginate \| erose \| fierce \| fimbriate \| fringed \| grating \| gravel \| gravelly \| hard \| harsh \| hilly \| homespun(p) \| imbricate \| imbricated \| inexact \| jagged \| jaggy \| jarring \| jolting \| jolty \| lacerate \| laciniate \| lepidote \| leprose \| lined \| log(a) \| mountainous \| notched \| nubbly \| nubby \| outline \| pectinate \| pique \| pocked \| pockmarked \| potholed \| puckered \| pugnacious \| rasping \| raspy \| ribbed \| rimose \| rocky \| rough in \| rough out \| roughened \| roughish \| roughly \| rough-textured \| rugged \| rugose \| runcinate \| sandpapery \| saw-toothed \| scabby \| scabrous \| scalloped \| scaly \| scratchy \| scurfy \| seamed \| serrate \| serrated \| serrulate \| shagged \| shaggy \| slubbed \| spinose \| squamulose \| stony \| stormy \| textured \| toothed \| tweedy \| twill \| twilled \| uncut \| unpleasant \| unpolished \| unrefined \| unsheared \| unskilled \| unsmooth \| verrucose \| wartlike \| warty Related Terms \| Find terms related to Rough: See Also \| coarse \| compose \| compound \| golf course \| golf links \| indite \| irregular \| land site \| links \| nonslippery \| pen \| prepare \| simple \| site \| uneven \| unironed \| unsubdivided \| wrinkled \| write Rough In Webster's Dictionary \Rough\, a. [Compar. {Rougher}; superl. {Roughest}.] [OE. rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r?h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf. {Rug}, n.] 1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically: (a) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. ``Rough, uneven ways.'' --Shak. (b) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond. (c) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet. (d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. ``A visage rough.'' --Dryden. ``Roughsatyrs.'' --Milton. 2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically: (a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. --Prior. (b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions. On the rough edge of battle. --Milton. A quicker and rougher remedy. --Clarendon. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. --Locke. (c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers. --Pope. (d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine. (e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day. He stayeth his rough wind. --Isa. xxvii. 8. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. --Shak. (f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught. {Rough diamond}, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. {Rough and ready}. (a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. ``The rough and ready understanding.'' --Lowell. (b) Produced offhand. ``Some rough and ready theory.'' --Tylor. \Rough\, n. 1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher. 2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. {In the rough}, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs. Browning. \Rough\, adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly. Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. --Sir W. Scott. \Rough\, v. t. 1. To render rough; to roughen. 2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. {Roughing rolls}, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars. {To rough it}, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts.

Rough Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Rough?

[n] the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
[adv] with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
[adv] with roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside"; (`rough' is informal as in"they treated him rough")
[adj] 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"
[adj] unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
[adj] not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
[adj] full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
[adj] not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
[adj] unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
[adj] not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
[adj] (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
[adj] not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
[adj] 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"
[adj] (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
[v] prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
[v] draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

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Rough In Webster's Dictionary

\Rough\, a. [Compar. {Rougher}; superl. {Roughest}.] [OE.
rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r?h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug,
D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas
wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf. {Rug}, n.]
1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the
   surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough
   stone; rough cloth. Specifically:
   (a) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of
       a piece of land, or of a road. ``Rough, uneven ways.''
       --Shak.
   (b) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough
       diamond.
   (c) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or
       other piece of water.

             More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet.
   (d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; --
       said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough
       coat. ``A visage rough.'' --Dryden. ``Roughsatyrs.''
       --Milton.

2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or
   polish. Specifically:
   (a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a
       rough temper.

             A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak.

             A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.
                                               --Prior.
   (b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough
       measures or actions.

             On the rough edge of battle.      --Milton.

             A quicker and rougher remedy.     --Clarendon.

             Kind words prevent a good deal of that
             perverseness which rough and imperious usage
             often produces.                   --Locke.
   (c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating;
       -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough
       tone; rough numbers. --Pope.
   (d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
   (e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a
       rough day.

             He stayeth his rough wind.        --Isa. xxvii.
                                               8.

             Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
                                               --Shak.
   (f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish;
       incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.

{Rough diamond}, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a
   person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior.



{Rough and ready}.
   (a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. ``The
       rough and ready understanding.'' --Lowell.
   (b) Produced offhand. ``Some rough and ready theory.''
       --Tylor.


\Rough\, n.
1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher.

2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

{In the rough}, in an unwrought or rude condition;
   unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.

         Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs.
                                               Browning.


\Rough\, adv.
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

      Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in
      their boats.                             --Sir W.
                                               Scott.


\Rough\, v. t.
1. To render rough; to roughen.

2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
   --Crabb.

3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as,
   to rough out a carving, a sketch.

{Roughing rolls}, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a
   bloom of iron to bars.

{To rough it}, to endure hard conditions of living; to live
   without ordinary comforts.

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