ALL meanings of roughness
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R r - noun roughness unevenness 1
- noun roughness severity 1
- adjective roughness having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road. 1
- adjective roughness shaggy or coarse: a dog with a rough coat. 1
- adjective roughness (of an uninhabited region or large land area) steep or uneven and covered with high grass, brush, trees, stones, etc.: to hunt over rough country. 1
- adjective roughness acting with or characterized by violence: Boxing is a rough sport. 1
- adjective roughness characterized by unnecessary violence or infractions of the rules: It was a rough prize fight. 1
- adjective roughness violently disturbed or agitated; turbulent, as water or the air: a rough sea. 1
- adjective roughness having a violently irregular motion; uncomfortably or dangerously uneven: The plane had a rough flight in the storm. 1
- adjective roughness stormy or tempestuous, as wind or weather. 1
- adjective roughness sharp or harsh: a rough temper. 1
- adjective roughness unmannerly or rude: his rough and churlish manner; They exchanged rough words. 1
- adjective roughness disorderly or riotous: a rough mob. 1
- adjective roughness difficult or unpleasant: to have a rough time of it. 1
- adjective roughness harsh to the ear; grating or jarring, as sounds. 1
- adjective roughness harsh to the taste; sharp or astringent: a rough wine. 1
- adjective roughness coarse, as food. 1
- adjective roughness lacking culture or refinement: a rough, countrified manner. 1
- adjective roughness without refinements, luxuries, or ordinary comforts or conveniences: rough camping. 1
- adjective roughness requiring exertion or strength rather than intelligence or skill: rough manual labor. 1
- adjective roughness not elaborated, perfected, or corrected; unpolished, as language, verse, or style: a rough draft. 1
- adjective roughness made or done without any attempt at exactness, completeness, or thoroughness; approximate or tentative: a rough guess. 1
- adjective roughness crude, unwrought, nonprocessed, or unprepared: rough rice. 1
- adjective roughness Phonetics. uttered with aspiration; having the sound of h; aspirated. 1
- noun roughness something that is rough, especially rough ground. 1
- noun roughness Golf. any part of the course bordering the fairway on which the grass, weeds, etc., are not trimmed. 1
- noun roughness the unpleasant or difficult part of anything. 1
- noun roughness anything in its crude or preliminary form, as a drawing. 1
- noun roughness Chiefly British. a rowdy; ruffian. 1
- adverb roughness in a rough manner; roughly. 1
- verb with object roughness to make rough; roughen. 1
- verb with object roughness to give a beating to, manhandle, or subject to physical violence (often followed by up): The mob roughed up the speaker. 1
- verb with object roughness to subject to some rough, preliminary process of working or preparation (often followed by down, off, or out): to rough off boards. 1
- verb with object roughness to sketch roughly or in outline (often followed by in or out): to rough out a diagram; to rough in the conversation of a novel. 1
- verb with object roughness Sports. to subject (a player on the opposing team) to unnecessary physical abuse, as in blocking or tackling: The team was penalized 15 yards for roughing the kicker. 1
- verb without object roughness to become rough, as a surface. 1
- verb without object roughness to behave roughly. 1
- idioms roughness in the rough, in a rough, crude, or unfinished state: The country has an exciting potential, but civilization there is still in the rough. 1
- idioms roughness rough it, to live without the customary comforts or conveniences; endure rugged conditions: We really roughed it on our fishing trip. 1