Hyphenation of Roughness

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Roughness? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

Rough-ness

Definitions of Roughness:

1.	A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
2.	The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
3.	An unpolished unrefined quality The crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
4.	Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
5.	Rowdy behavior
6.	The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
7.	Harsh or severe speech or behavior Men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity The roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet

Synonyms of Roughness:

noun	texture
noun	harshness, timbre, timber, quality, tone
noun	crudeness, inelegance
noun	choppiness, rough water, storminess
noun	rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness, disorder
noun	pitting, indentation, corrosion, corroding, erosion

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Hyphenator

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