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rough

English

🔊 not perfected
“a rough draft”
🔊 (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
“she was a diamond in the rough”
🔊 having or caused by an irregular surface
“trees with rough bark”
🔊 causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
“a rough ride”
🔊 of the margin of a leaf shape
🔊 ready and able to resort to force or violence
“pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance”
🔊 not shaped by cutting or trimming
“an uncut diamond”
🔊 full of hardship or trials
“the rocky road to success”
🔊 unkind or cruel or uncivil
“had harsh words”
🔊 unpleasantly stern
“wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus”
🔊 not carefully or expertly made
“managed to make a crude splint”
🔊 violently agitated and turbulent
“boisterous winds and waves”
🔊 not quite exact or correct
“the approximate time was 10 o'clock”
🔊 unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
“a gravelly voice”
🔊 the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
🔊 with rough motion as over a rough surface
“ride rough”
🔊 with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
“he was pushed roughly aside”
🔊 prepare in preliminary or sketchy form