Main entry: rough
Definition: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Main entry: rough, rough in, rough out
Definition: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Main entry: pugnacious, rough
Definition: ready and able to resort to force or violence
Usage: pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville; they were rough and determined fighting men
Main entry: grating, gravelly, rough, scratchy, rasping, raspy
Definition: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
Usage: a gravelly voice
Main entry: boisterous, fierce, rough
Definition: violently agitated and turbulent
Usage: boisterous winds and waves; the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound; rough weather; rough seas
Definition: not shaped by cutting or trimming
Usage: an uncut diamond; rough gemstones
Definition: full of hardship or trials
Usage: the rocky road to success; they were having a rough time
Main entry: rough, approximate, approximative
Definition: not quite exact or correct
Usage: the approximate time was 10 o'clock; a rough guess; a ballpark estimate
Definition: unkind or cruel or uncivil
Usage: had harsh words; a harsh and unlovable old tyrant; a rough answer
Definition: unpleasantly stern
Usage: wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus; the nomad life is rough and hazardous
Main entry: rough
Definition: not perfected
Usage: a rough draft; a few rough sketches
Main entry: rough
Definition: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
Usage: she was a diamond in the rough; rough manners
Definition: not carefully or expertly made
Usage: managed to make a crude splint; a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them; rough carpentry
Definition: having or caused by an irregular surface
Usage: trees with rough bark; rough ground; rough skin; rough blankets; his unsmooth face
Main entry: rough, jolting, jolty, jumpy, bumpy, rocky
Definition: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
Usage: a rough ride
Main entry: rough
Definition: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
Definition: with rough motion as over a rough surface
Usage: ride rough
Definition: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
Usage: he was pushed roughly aside; they treated him rough