Main entry: roughness
Definition: harsh or severe speech or behavior
Usage: men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity; the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet
Main entry: crudeness, roughness
Definition: an unpolished unrefined quality
Usage: the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
Main entry: roughness, raggedness
Definition: a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
Main entry: harshness, roughness
Definition: the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
Main entry: pitting, roughness, indentation
Definition: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
Main entry: roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness
Definition: rowdy behavior
Main entry: rough water, roughness, choppiness
Definition: used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather