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