Synonyms: rough
Definition: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Similar words: site, land site
Definition: the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
Usage: a good site for the school
Synonyms: rough, rough in, rough out
Definition: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Similar words: prepare
Definition: to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery
Usage: prepare a report; prepare a speech
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: aggressive
Definition: having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
Usage: an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions; aggressive drivers
Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rough, scratchy, rasping, raspy
Definition: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
Usage: a gravelly voice
Similar words: cacophonic, cacophonous
Definition: having an unpleasant sound
Usage: as cacophonous as a henyard- John McCarten
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: stormy
Definition: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
Usage: a stormy day; wide and stormy seas
Definition: not shaped by cutting or trimming
Usage: an uncut diamond; rough gemstones
Similar words: unsheared
Definition: (used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared
Usage: unsheared beaver
Definition: full of hardship or trials
Usage: the rocky road to success; they were having a rough time
Similar words: difficult, hard
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Usage: a difficult task; nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access; difficult times; why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
Synonyms: rough, approximate, approximative
Definition: not quite exact or correct
Usage: the approximate time was 10 o'clock; a rough guess; a ballpark estimate
Similar words: inexact
Definition: not exact
Definition: unkind or cruel or uncivil
Usage: had harsh words; a harsh and unlovable old tyrant; a rough answer
Similar words: unkind
Definition: lacking kindness
Usage: a thoughtless and unkind remark; the unkindest cut of all
Definition: unpleasantly stern
Usage: wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus; the nomad life is rough and hazardous
Similar words: unpleasant
Definition: disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
Usage: an unpleasant personality; unpleasant repercussions; unpleasant odors
Synonyms: rough
Definition: not perfected
Usage: a rough draft; a few rough sketches
Similar words: unpolished
Definition: not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing
Usage: dull unpolished shoes
Synonyms: rough
Definition: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
Usage: she was a diamond in the rough; rough manners
Similar words: unrefined
Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth
Usage: how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?
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
Similar words: unskilled
Definition: not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
Usage: unskilled in the art of rhetoric; an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber; unskilled labor; workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities; unskilled workmanship
Definition: having or caused by an irregular surface
Usage: trees with rough bark; rough ground; rough skin; rough blankets; his unsmooth face
Similar words: scratchy, abrasive
Definition: causing abrasion
Similar words: alligatored, cracked
Definition: of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
Similar words: barky
Definition: resembling the rough bark of a tree
Usage: the rattlesnake's barky scales
Definition: topographically very uneven
Usage: broken terrain; rugged ground
Similar words: bullate
Definition: of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
Similar words: bumpy
Definition: covered with or full of bumps
Usage: a bumpy country road
Similar words: chapped, roughened, cracked
Definition: used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
Usage: chapped lips
Similar words: corded, twilled
Definition: of textiles; having parallel raised lines
Similar words: costate, ribbed
Definition: (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
Similar words: hilly, mountainous, cragged, craggy
Definition: having hills and crags
Usage: hilly terrain
Similar words: crushed
Definition: treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
Usage: crushed velvet
Similar words: homespun, tweedy, nubbly, nubby, slubbed
Definition: of textiles; having a rough surface
Usage: a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns
Similar words: imbricate, imbricated
Definition: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
Similar words: scabrous, scaly, scurfy, lepidote, leprose
Definition: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
Similar words: squamulose
Definition: covered with tiny scales
Definition: (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams
Usage: their lined faces were immeasurably sad; a seamed face
Similar words: pocked, pockmarked, potholed
Definition: used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
Similar words: rock-ribbed, rockbound
Definition: abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps
Usage: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine
Similar words: rocky, stony, bouldered, bouldery
Definition: abounding in rocks or stones
Usage: rocky fields; stony ground; bouldery beaches
Similar words: shingly, gravelly, pebbly
Definition: abounding in small stones
Usage: landed at a shingly little beach
Similar words: roughish
Definition: somewhat rough
Similar words: rugose
Definition: of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
Similar words: sandpapery
Definition: having the abrasive texture of sandpaper
Similar words: saw-like
Definition: having rough edges that can be used for sawing
Similar words: scabby
Definition: covered with scabs
Similar words: shagged, shaggy
Definition: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags
Usage: junipers with shagged trunks; shaggy rugs
Similar words: rough-textured, coarse-textured, textured
Definition: having surface roughness
Usage: a textured wall of stucco; a rough-textured tweed
Similar words: verrucose, wartlike, warty
Definition: (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
Synonyms: rough
Definition: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
Similar words: bidentate
Definition: having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed
Similar words: biserrate
Definition: having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched
Similar words: ciliate, ciliated
Definition: having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
Similar words: scalloped, crenate, crenated
Definition: having a margin with rounded scallops
Similar words: crenulate, crenulated
Definition: having a margin with small rounded teeth
Usage: a crenulate leaf
Similar words: crispate
Definition: wavy or notched and curled very irregularly
Similar words: dentate
Definition: having toothlike projections in the margin
Similar words: denticulate
Definition: having a very finely toothed margin
Similar words: emarginate
Definition: having a notched tip
Similar words: erose, toothed, notched, jagged, jaggy
Definition: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
Similar words: fimbriate
Definition: having a fringe of slender processes
Similar words: fringed, laciniate
Definition: having edges irregularly and finely slashed
Usage: a laciniate leaf
Similar words: lacerate, lacerated
Definition: irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn
Usage: lacerate leaves
Similar words: pectinate
Definition: like a comb
Similar words: rimose
Definition: having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices
Usage: a tree with rimose bark
Similar words: runcinate
Definition: having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves
Similar words: saw-toothed, serrate, serrated, toothed, notched
Definition: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
Similar words: serrulate
Definition: minutely serrated
Similar words: spinose
Definition: having spines