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