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ROUGH

Definition:

1. [adverb] with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
   Synonyms: ly
   
   
2. [adverb] with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
   Synonyms: ly
   
   
3. [noun] the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
   
   
4. [verb] prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
   Synonyms: in, out
   
   
5. [adjective] 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"
   Synonyms: unsmooth
   
   
6. [adjective] (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
   
   
7. [adjective] not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
   Synonyms: approximate, approximative
   
   
8. [adjective] full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
   Synonyms: rocky
   
   
9. [adjective] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
   Synonyms: boisterous, fierce
   
   
10. [adjective] unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
    Synonyms: grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy
    
    
11. [adjective] 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"
    Synonyms: pugnacious
    
    
12. [adjective] of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
    
    
13. [adjective] not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
    Synonyms: uncut
    
    
14. [adjective] not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
    Synonyms: crude
    
    
15. [adjective] not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
    
    
16. [adjective] unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
    Synonyms: harsh
    
    

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