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The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short |
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Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form |
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Having or caused by an irregular surface Trees with rough bark Rough ground Rough skin Rough blankets His unsmooth face |
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(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse She was a diamond in the rough Rough manners |
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Not quite exact or correct The approximate time was 10 o'clock A rough guess A ballpark estimate |
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Full of hardship or trials The rocky road to success They were having a rough time |
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Violently agitated and turbulent Boisterous winds and waves The fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound Rough weather Rough seas |
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Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound A gravelly voice |
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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 |
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Of the margin of a leaf shape Having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped |
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Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements A rough ride |
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Not shaped by cutting or trimming An uncut diamond Rough gemstones |
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Not carefully or expertly made Managed to make a crude splint A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them Rough carpentry |
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Not perfected A rough draft A few rough sketches |
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Unpleasantly stern Wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus The nomad life is rough and hazardous |
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Unkind or cruel or uncivil Had harsh words A harsh and unlovable old tyrant A rough answer |
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With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') He was pushed roughly aside They treated him rough |
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With rough motion as over a rough surface Ride rough |
| adj | rough, unsmooth, abrasive, scratchy, alligatored, cracked, barky, broken, rugged, bullate, bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty, chapped, cracked, roughened, corded, twilled, costate, ribbed, cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous, crushed, homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy, lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy, squamulose, lined, seamed, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony, roughish, rugose, scabby, textured, rough-textured, verrucose, warty, wartlike, imbricate, imbricated, sandpapery, shagged, shaggy, coarse, irregular, nonslippery, uneven, unironed, wrinkled, unpolished |
| adj | unrefined |
| adj | approximate, approximative, inexact |
| adj | rocky, difficult, hard |
| adj | boisterous, fierce, stormy |
| adj | grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, cacophonous, cacophonic |
| adj | pugnacious, aggressive |
| adj | rough, 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, simple, unsubdivided, compound |
| adj | uncut, unsheared |
| adj | crude, unskilled |
| adj | unpolished |
| adj | harsh, unpleasant |
| noun | site, land site
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| verb | rough in, rough out, prepare |
| adv | roughly |
| adv | roughly |