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Adjective rough has 12 senses
- 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"
Antonyms: smooth, creaseless, uncreased, fast, glassy, glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick, seamless, unlined, unseamed, velvet, velvety, waxlike, waxy, ceraceous, marmoreal, marmorean
- rough - (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
Antonym: refined (indirect, via unrefined)
- approximate, approximative, rough - not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
Antonym: exact (indirect, via inexact)
- rocky, rough - full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
Antonym: easy (indirect, via difficult)
- boisterous, fierce, rough - violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
Antonym: calm (indirect, via stormy)
- grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
Antonyms: euphonious, euphonous (indirect, via cacophonous)
- 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"
Antonyms: unaggressive, nonaggressive (indirect, via aggressive)
- rough - of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
Antonyms: smooth, entire, repand, sinuate, undulate, unnotched, untoothed
- uncut, rough - not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
- 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"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
- rough - not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
Antonym: polished (indirect, via unpolished)
- harsh, rough - unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
Antonym: pleasant (indirect, via unpleasant)
Adverbial rough has 2 senses
- roughly, rough - with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
- roughly, rough - with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
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