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ADJECTIVE rough COMPARATIVE rougher SUPERLATIVE roughest
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rough English

Meaning rough meaning

What does rough mean?
Definitions in simple English

rough Noun

— A rough is a person who is rude.

rough Adjective

— Having small bumps on it. Not smooth. The wooden table felt rough until he rubbed it with sandpaper to make it smooth. Stone roads are rough and make my bicycle go up and down. — Not perfect. I quickly drew a rough map to help him find the place. — If something is rough, it is difficult. Life can be rough sometimes.

rough Verb

— If you rough something, you create it in an approximate form. Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

rough

— adjective (= unsmooth) having or caused by an irregular surface trees with rough bark rough ground rough skin rough blankets his unsmooth face — adjective (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse she was a diamond in the rough rough manners — adjective (= approximate) not quite exact or correct the approximate time was 10 o'clock a rough guess a ballpark estimate — adverb (= roughly) with roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly') he was pushed roughly aside they treated him rough — adjective (= rocky) full of hardship or trials the rocky road to success they were having a rough time — adjective (= pugnacious) ready and able to resort to force or violence pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance — Herman Melville they were rough and determined fighting men — verb (= rough in) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form — adjective (= boisterous, fierce) violently agitated and turbulent boisterous winds and waves the fierce thunders roar me their music — Ezra Pound rough weather rough seas — adjective (= grating, gravelly) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound a gravelly voice — adjective (= jolting) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements a rough ride — adjective of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped — adjective not perfected a rough draft a few rough sketches — noun the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short — adjective (= crude) not carefully or expertly made managed to make a crude splint a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them rough carpentry — adverb with rough motion as over a rough surface ride rough — adjective (= harsh) unpleasantly stern wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus the nomad life is rough and hazardous — adjective (= uncut) not shaped by cutting or trimming an uncut diamond rough gemstones — adjective (= harsh) unkind or cruel or uncivil had harsh words a harsh and unlovable old tyrant a rough answer

Synonyms rough synonyms

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rough English » English

coarse harsh rude uneven crude rugged hard bumpy gruff approximate unrefined wild tough raw vulgar jagged violent uncouth brutal rustic rocky abrasive thick rowdy not smooth grainy clumsy unpolished unkind surly stormy sour sketchy sharp severe scratchy scabrous roughly gross careless broad boorish bad unstable unpleasant uncivil sullen stiff shaggy raucous

Topics rough topics

What do people use rough to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Calm, rough
Person Sense, perceive Sense of touch

Comfortable
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Person Body

Skin
Person Sense, perceive See Appearance

Ugly
Language and thought Communication Say

Voice
Social behavior Law Justice

Act harshly
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Violent
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
States Quantity All Exact

Approximate
States Quality Shape Straight

Flat
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping
States Quality Texture

Rough
Person Healthy

Sick

Conjugation rough conjugation

How do you conjugate rough?

rough · verb

Examples rough examples

How do I use rough in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We had a rough time.
Go easy on Bob. You know, he's been going though a rough period recently.
Boxing is not always a rough sport.
So, players were often seriously injured and sometimes even killed in these rough games.
They were made of rough brown leather.
I have a rough idea where it is.
The surface of the object is fairly rough.
The ship encountered rough seas.
This paper is rough.
The police asked the girl to make a rough sketch of her lost dog.
The sea got rough, so that we had to give up fishing.
At a rough estimate, I would say the job will take two weeks.
The tongue of a cat feels rough.
He has rough manners.
Tom did a good job proofreading Mary's rough draft.
Tom has a rough idea about how to solve the problem.
You'll have a rough time.
Tom had a rough day.

Movie subtitles

Wow. That is rough.
Morning, Reverend, you're looking rough.
Chad, I know we got off to a bit of a rough start, but it isn't too late to start over.
This night was rough.
The astronomers show signs of fatigue after the rough trip they have just had.
They donned rough hides and claimed to be journeyman tanners, roaming the country in search of work.
Here's a taste of the rough stuff!
Rough.
You've Had A Rough Year At This Place,Too.
Bad news? - It's only a rough note.
I'd like to be. Only, of course, it wasn't so nice up north when it was cold and rough was it?
Was I too rough with him?
I hope you weren't very rough with him.
I don't want to pull anything too rough unless we have to. Kent, you take the boys up into the cabin and Dolores will get him up there.
I think it's a little bit rough right here. I fix that.
I hear it's a bit rough in the channel.
One of the sailors told me it was a bit rough outside.
Channel crossings extremely rough.
It's only a rough note.
Only, of course, it wasn't so nice up north when it was cold and rough was it?
Our country inns are rough.
You get too rough! Too involved!
We've got a lot of roll and pitch here, and rough seas.
It must have been rough.
They'll be pretty rough with you, with your record.
Can I just ask, what's with all the rough stuff?
That's just the sort of thinking that led you into such a rough life. you big sinner.
If I need dough, I have to rough her up before she'll go after it.
Well, this will give you kind of a rough idea.
Beneath their rough exteriors, they really have hearts of platinum.
Children, not quite so rough.
You were warned before to lay off that rough stuff.
The rough-and-ready type is what women go for nowadays.
Don't let them get rough.
Maybe there's a rough bearing or two.
This may get a bit rough, baby.

News and current affairs

Yet what appealed to the outside world was not always an asset in the rough and tumble of Israeli politics.
Equilibrium requires that outsiders not tip the balance of a ship of state already enduring a rough ride.
Apart from electoral reform, outlets for political participation and expression of public grievances must be balanced by institutions and procedures that are partly insulated from the rough-and-tumble of politics.
If they don't, Europe will largely cease to matter when the going gets rough.
And the going is now getting quite rough in Iran and the Persian Gulf.
In most societies, including the US, the public expression of such opinions is limited by a rough consensus on what is socially respectable.
The engineering behind it was technically complicated, but what you got was pretty rough: a page of text, broken up by ten blue links.
Because many people do not have easy access to hospitals and clinics, these figures are rough estimates at best.
In the US, large companies were fat and lazy until a new generation of bosses like Jack Welch at General Electric took over and played rough.
Yet beneath Iraq's chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.
These are the major questions looming before us as the president-elect prepares the American people for what can only be a rough ride ahead.
Traversing extremely rough terrain with 200 tunnels and bridges, it promises to cut the transit time by three or four hours.
Using this figure as a rough indicator of willingness to pay for proper measurement and monitoring suggests that the post-2015 goals should include just four targets.
With an economy about a quarter of the size of America's, it was able to maintain rough military parity by spending four times as much of its national income on defense as the US did - to the detriment of the living standards of ordinary citizens.
Indeed, one of Schroeder's first major foreign-policy experiences was the EU summit of 1999, where the leaders of France and Britain played rough with the newcomer from Berlin.
The US has had a rough few years.
So, despite a rough start from the financial crisis (which will still slow global growth this year and next), there is no reason why the new decade has to be an economic flop.
Germany's division created a rough demographic parity between French and West Germans.
I first met her in a makeshift classroom situated in a sea of tents; later, I saw her again, playing with other children on a rough playground.
America's readiness to stand by them when the game gets rough will determine the strength and size of its security-alliance system in Asia in the years ahead.
His rough diplomacy frightened France, Britain, and Russia, making it easier for them to unite against Germany.
Recently, however, this rough-and-ready approach has begun to prove inadequate.

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