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Rough

adjective

(compar. rougher; superl. roughest)

1.

Having or caused by an irregular surface. Synonym: unsmooth. "Rough ground" , "Rough skin" , "Rough blankets" , "His unsmooth face" Antonym: smooth.

2.

(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse. "Rough manners"

3.

Not quite exact or correct. Synonyms: approximate, approximative. "A rough guess" , "A ballpark estimate"

4.

Full of hardship or trials. Synonym: rocky. "They were having a rough time"

5.

Violently agitated and turbulent. Synonyms: boisterous, fierce. "The fierce thunders roar me their music" , "Rough weather" , "Rough seas"

6.

Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound. Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy.

7.

Ready and able to resort to force or violence. Synonym: pugnacious. "They were rough and determined fighting men"

8.

Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped. Antonym: smooth.

9.

Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements. Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky. Antonym: smooth.

10.

Not shaped by cutting or trimming. Synonym: uncut. "Rough gemstones" Antonym: cut.

11.

Not carefully or expertly made. Synonym: crude. "A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them" , "Rough carpentry"

12.

Not perfected. "A few rough sketches"

13.

Unpleasantly stern. Synonym: harsh. "The nomad life is rough and hazardous"

14.

Unkind or cruel or uncivil. Synonym: harsh. "A harsh and unlovable old tyrant" , "A rough answer"

noun

1.

The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short.

verb

1.

Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form. Synonyms: rough in, rough out.

adverb

1.

With roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly'). Synonym: roughly. "They treated him rough"

2.

With rough motion as over a rough surface. Synonym: roughly.

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... I felt I must kill every German I saw. Of course, we've got over it now a bit, and we're all supplied with helmets, but when they used it first we had simply nothing to defend us. Yes, I have done some rough bits of work in my time, but I never met with anything like that. When you see your own pals getting bluer and bluer in the face, and coughing and gasping, oh, I tell you it made us mad! We didn't feel like showing any mercy after that. Besides, they have no sense ...

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