Dictionary entry details
• ROUGH (noun)
Meaning:
The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rough" is a kind of...):
land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))
Holonyms ("rough" is a part of...):
golf course; links course (course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf)
• ROUGH (adjective)
Meaning:
Having or caused by an irregular surface
Synonyms:
rough; unsmooth
Context examples:
trees with rough bark / rough ground / rough skin / rough blankets / his unsmooth face
Similar:
homespun; nubbly; nubby; slubbed; tweedy (of textiles; having a rough surface)
imbricate; imbricated (used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles)
lepidote; leprose; scabrous; scaly; scurfy (rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf)
squamulose (covered with tiny scales)
lined; seamed ((used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams)
pocked; pockmarked; potholed (used of paved surfaces having holes or pits)
bouldered; bouldery; rocky; stony (abounding in rocks or stones)
roughish (somewhat rough)
rugose (of leaves; ridged or wrinkled)
sandpapery (having the abrasive texture of sandpaper)
saw-like (having rough edges that can be used for sawing)
scabby (covered with scabs)
shagged; shaggy (having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags)
coarse-textured; rough-textured; textured (having surface roughness)
verrucose; wartlike; warty ((of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts)
crushed (treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance)
cragged; craggy; hilly; mountainous (having hills and crags)
abrasive; scratchy (causing abrasion)
alligatored; cracked (of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide)
barky (resembling the rough bark of a tree)
broken; rugged (topographically very uneven)
bullate (of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered)
bumpy (covered with or full of bumps)
chapped; cracked; roughened (used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure)
corded; twilled (of textiles; having parallel raised lines)
costate; ribbed ((of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture)
Also:
uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)
unironed; wrinkled ((of linens or clothes) not ironed)
unpolished (not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing)
irregular (contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice)
coarse; harsh (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)
nonslippery (not slippery; not likely to slip or skid)
Antonym:
smooth (having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities)
Meaning:
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
Context examples:
she was a diamond in the rough / rough manners
Similar:
unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)
Meaning:
Not quite exact or correct
Synonyms:
approximate; approximative; rough
Context examples:
the approximate time was 10 o'clock / a rough guess / a ballpark estimate
Similar:
inexact (not exact)
Meaning:
Full of hardship or trials
Synonyms:
rocky; rough
Context examples:
the rocky road to success / they were having a rough time
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Meaning:
Violently agitated and turbulent
Synonyms:
boisterous; fierce; rough
Context examples:
boisterous winds and waves / the fierce thunders roar me their music / rough weather / rough seas
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Meaning:
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
Synonyms:
raspy; rasping; gravel; grating; gravelly; scratchy; rough
Context example:
a gravelly voice
Similar:
cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)
Meaning:
Ready and able to resort to force or violence
Synonyms:
pugnacious; rough
Context examples:
pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance / they were rough and determined fighting men
Similar:
aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)
Meaning:
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
Similar:
erose; jagged; jaggy; notched; toothed (having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed)
fimbriate (having a fringe of slender processes)
fringed; laciniate (having edges irregularly and finely slashed)
lacerate; lacerated (irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn)
pectinate (like a comb)
rimose (having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices)
runcinate (having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves)
notched; saw-toothed; serrate; serrated; toothed (notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex)
serrulate (minutely serrated)
spinose (having spines)
emarginate (having a notched tip)
denticulate (having a very finely toothed margin)
dentate (having toothlike projections in the margin)
angulate (having sharp angles)
bidentate (having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed)
biserrate (having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched)
ciliate; ciliated (having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections)
crenate; crenated; scalloped (having a margin with rounded scallops)
crenulate; crenulated (having a margin with small rounded teeth)
crispate (wavy or notched and curled very irregularly)
Also:
compound (of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes)
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
smooth (of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth)
Meaning:
Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
Synonyms:
jolty; jolting; bumpy; jumpy; rocky; rough
Context example:
a rough ride
Antonym:
smooth (of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence)
Meaning:
Not shaped by cutting or trimming
Synonyms:
uncut; rough
Context examples:
an uncut diamond / rough gemstones
Similar:
unsheared ((used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared)
Meaning:
Not carefully or expertly made
Synonyms:
crude; rough
Context examples:
managed to make a crude splint / a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them / rough carpentry
Similar:
unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)
Meaning:
Not perfected
Context examples:
a rough draft / a few rough sketches
Similar:
unpolished (not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing)
Meaning:
Unpleasantly stern
Synonyms:
harsh; rough
Context examples:
wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus / the nomad life is rough and hazardous
Similar:
unpleasant (disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings)
Meaning:
Unkind or cruel or uncivil
Synonyms:
harsh; rough
Context examples:
had harsh words / a harsh and unlovable old tyrant / a rough answer
Similar:
unkind (lacking kindness)
• ROUGH (verb)
Meaning:
Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
rough; rough in; rough out
Hypernyms (to "rough" is one way to...):
prepare (to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
• ROUGH (adverb)
Meaning:
With roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly')
Synonyms:
rough; roughly
Context examples:
he was pushed roughly aside / they treated him rough
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
With rough motion as over a rough surface
Synonyms:
rough; roughly
Context example:
ride rough
