rough

adj

1. irregular, uneven, coarse, not smooth, rugged, bumpy, jagged, craggy, scraggy; stony, rocky; stubbled, knotted, nodose, gnarled; wrinkly, rugulose, crinkly, corrugated, scaly; lumpy, nodulous.

2. shaggy, hairy, hirsute, crinose, trichoid; bristly, bristling, Bot., Zool. hispid, setaceous, setose, Bot., Zool. setulose, setigerous, setiferous, Bot. strigose; bushy, unshorn, unshaven, bearded; unkempt, disheveled, disordered; furry, pilose; velvety, Bot. villous; tufted, Bot., Entomol. crinite; downy, nappy, Bot., Zool. pubescent, lanuginose, Bot., Zool. tomentose; woolly-haired, ulotrichous, kinky, flocculent, lanate; threadlike, filamentous, Bot., Zool. ciliated; feathery, Zool. plumate, plumous.

3. violent, disorderly, riotous, berserk, amuck; noisy, boisterous, uproarious, rowdy, rowdyish; frantic, frenzied, rampant; fierce, ferocious, furious, raging, vehement, savage.

4. turbulent, tumultuous, tempestuous, stormy; inclement, wintry, blustery; choppy, agitated.

5. rude, discourteous, impolite, uncivil, unceremonious, unmannerly, bad-mannered, disrespectful, misbehaved; indelicate, uncourtly, ungallant, indecorous; ungentlemanly, unladylike, brash, bold, hoydenish, Scot. randy; brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent, insulting, impertinent, pert, saucy, fresh; sharp, keen, trenchant, acrimonious, caustic, stinging, biting, piercing, stringent, brutal, cruel; bluff, bearish, gruff, inconsiderate, tactless, Scot, and North Eng. mislearned, blustering; sulky, morose, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-humored; sarcastic, bitter, virulent, snarling, venomous; grouchy, peevish, petulant, splenetic, thorny, cross; abrupt, blunt, brusque, curt, stern, austere; base, vile, obscene, indecent, ribald, foul mouthed, smutty, low, offensive, vulgar, crude.

6. difficult, unpleasant, hard; austere, severe, demanding; drastic, extreme, brutal.

7.(of sounds) discordant, inharmonious, disharmonious, cacophonous; harsh, grating, jarring, strident; raucous, gruff, hoarse, husky.

8.(of tastes) tart, astringent, sour, crabbed; acrid, sharp, biting, pungent, bitter, mordant; spicy, peppery.

9. uncouth, uncultured, unrefined, unpolished, uncivilized, incondite; coarse, vulgar, churlish, loutish, barbarous, brutish, wild, savage, gross; ignorant, illiterate, unlearned, untrained, untaught, untutored, uneducated, uncultivated; unskilled, unskillful, clumsy, gauche, crude; countrified, provincial, unfashionable, unsophisticated, homespun, homebred.

10. rough-hewn, crude, unwrought, uncut, unfash-ioned, unprepared, unprocessed; shapeless, formless, amorphous; incomplete, unfinished, imperfect; not elaborated, vague, sketchy, approximate, inexact; cursory, superficial; rudimentary, preliminary.

n

11. unpleasantness, difficulty, trial, tribulation, trouble, hardship.

12. rudiment, crude form, preliminary form, sketch, outline, foundation.

adv

13. roughly, violently, harshly, sharply, crudely, coarsely, ungently.

v

14. roughen, coarsen, harshen, sharpen, hone.

15. rough up

beat, pummel, thrash, manhandle, do violence to.

16. rough out

sketch, outline, delineate, block out, mark out, chalk out, demarcate.