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Exact Match:

rough

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

not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"

(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"

having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"

of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

Synonyms:

• Babbitt,
• Herculean,
• Philistine,
• Spartan,
• abrupt,
• abstruse,
• abuse,
• acerb,
• acerbic,
• acid,
• acidulous,
• acrid,
• acrimonious,
• acute,
• aggressive,
• agitated,
• amaroidal,
• approximate,
• arduous,
• arrested,
• arriviste,
• asperous,
• assault,
• astringent,
• attack,
• austere,
• backward,
• bad,
• batter,
• battler,
• bearish,
• beastly,
• beat up,
• belabor,
• belligerent,
• belted knight,
• bickerer,
• biting,
• bitter,
• bitter as gall,
• blade,
• block out,
• blueprint,
• bluff,
• blunt,
• blustering,
• blustery,
• boisterous,
• boor,
• boss,
• bouncy,
• bounder,
• bourgeois,
• brash,
• brassy,
• bravo,
• brawler,
• brazen,
• brief,
• broken,
• broken ground,
• broken water,
• brokenly,
• brouillon,
• bruise,
• brusque,
• brutal,
• brutally,
• brutishly,
• bucko,
• buffet,
• bully,
• bullyboy,
• bumpy,
• cacophonous,
• cad,
• capricious,
• careening,
• cartoon,
• catchy,
• caustic,
• cavalier,
• changeable,
• changing,
• chart,
• choked,
• chop,
• choppily,
• choppy,
• churl,
• churlish,
• clown,
• coarse,
• coarse-grained,
• coarsen,
• combatant,
• competitor,
• complex,
• contender,
• contestant,
• copy,
• corduroy,
• corduroy road,
• corrugated,
• corrugation,
• cracked,
• cragged,
• craggy,
• crass,
• critical,
• croaking,
• croaky,
• cross-grained,
• crude,
• cruel,
• crusty,
• cursory,
• curt,
• cutthroat,
• cutting,
• delicate,
• delineation,
• demanding,
• design,
• desperado,
• desultory,
• deviating,
• deviative,
• deviatory,
• devil,
• diagram,
• different,
• difficile,
• difficult,
• dirty,
• disconnected,
• discontinuous,
• discordant,
• discourteous,
• disorderly,
• disputant,
• disrespectful,
• divaricate,
• divergent,
• diversified,
• do violence to,
• do wrong by,
• do wrong to,
• double-edged,
• dour,
• draft,
• drastic,
• drawing,
• dry,
• duelist,
• earthy,
• ebauche,
• eccentric,
• edged,
• elevation,
• embryonic,
• enforcer,
• epicier,
• erose,
• erratic,
• escharotic,
• esquisse,
• exacting,
• excessive,
• exorbitant,
• extravagant,
• extreme,
• fencer,
• feuder,
• fierce,
• fighter,
• fighting cock,
• figure,
• firm,
• fitful,
• flickering,
• fluctuating,
• foggy,
• foilsman,
• formidable,
• formless,
• furious,
• gamecock,
• gaudy,
• general,
• gladiator,
• gnarl,
• goon,
• goose bumps,
• goose pimples,
• gooseflesh,
• gorilla,
• grained,
• grainy,
• granular,
• granulate,
• granulated,
• graph,
• grating,
• great,
• grim,
• gritty,
• gross,
• ground plan,
• groundling,
• gruff,
• gunman,
• guttering,
• guttersnipe,
• guttural,
• hairy,
• halting,
• hard,
• hard-earned,
• hard-fought,
• harsh,
• harsh-sounding,
• harum-scarum,
• hasty,
• hatchet man,
• hazy,
• heavy,
• hell-raiser,
• hellcat,
• herky-jerky,
• heteroclite,
• hoarse,
• homespun,
• hood,
• hooligan,
• horripilant,
• horripilate,
• horripilation,
• house plan,
• husky,
• ichnography,
• ill-bred,
• ill-bred fellow,
• ill-mannered,
• ill-treat,
• ill-use,
• immethodical,
• immoderate,
• imperfect,
• impolite,
• improper,
• impulsive,
• in embryo,
• in ovo,
• in the rough,
• incisive,
• inclement,
• incomplete,
• inconsiderate,
• inconsistent,
• inconstant,
• indecent,
• indelicate,
• inelegant,
• inequal,
• inexact,
• inharmonious,
• injure,
• intemperate,
• intense,
• intermittent,
• intermitting,
• intricate,
• ironbound,
• irregular,
• irregularly,
• irritating,
• jagged,
• jaggedly,
• jarring,
• jawbreaking,
• jerky,
• jogglety,
• joggling,
• joggly,
• jolting,
• jolty,
• jouster,
• keen,
• killer,
• knight,
• knob,
• knock about,
• knock-down-and-drag-out,
• knockabout,
• knotted,
• knotty,
• laborious,
• lambaste,
• lay on,
• linsey-woolsey,
• looby,
• lop,
• loud,
• lout,
• loutish,
• low fellow,
• lumpy,
• lurching,
• mad dog,
• malodorous,
• maltreat,
• manhandle,
• mark out,
• maul,
• mean,
• mercurial,
• meretricious,
• metallic,
• militant,
• mishandle,
• mistreat,
• mock-up,
• molest,
• mordacious,
• mordant,
• motley,
• mucker,
• mug,
• mutable,
• no picnic,
• nonconformist,
• nonstandard,
• nonuniform,
• nose-tickling,
• not easy,
• nouveau riche,
• obscene,
• operose,
• outline,
• outrage,
• outrageous,
• oversimple,
• parvenu,
• patchy,
• pattern,
• peasant,
• penetrating,
• piercing,
• pimple,
• pimply,
• piquant,
• pitted,
• plot,
• plug-ugly,
• pluralistic,
• pocky,
• poignant,
• pommel,
• pornographic,
• potholed,
• profile,
• projection,
• proximate,
• pummel,
• pungent,
• punk,
• quarreler,
• quick,
• ragged,
• raggedly,
• raging,
• rambling,
• rambunctious,
• rampageous,
• rank,
• rasping,
• raucid,
• raucous,
• raw,
• reductionistic,
• reductive,
• ribald,
• ridiculous,
• rigorous,
• rioter,
• ripple,
• ripply,
• rival,
• roiled,
• roisterous,
• rollicking,
• rotten,
• rough draft,
• rough up,
• rough-and-ready,
• rough-and-tumble,
• rough-cast,
• rough-grained,
• rough-hewn,
• roughcast,
• roughen,
• roughhewn,
• roughly,
• roughneck,
• roupy,
• rowdy,
• rude,
• rudimental,
• rudimentary,
• ruffian,
• ruffled,
• rugged,
• rutted,
• rutty,
• sabreur,
• sandpaper,
• savage,
• savagely,
• scabrous,
• scathing,
• scraggy,
• scrapper,
• scrappy,
• scuffler,
• set with thorns,
• severe,
• shagged,
• shaggy,
• shapeless,
• sharp,
• short,
• simplistic,
• skeleton,
• sketch,
• sketchy,
• smutty,
• snatchy,
• snippy,
• solid,
• sour,
• spasmatic,
• spasmic,
• spasmodic,
• spastic,
• spiny,
• splitting,
• sporadic,
• spotty,
• squabbler,
• squawking,
• squawky,
• stabbing,
• staggering,
• steep,
• stern,
• stertorous,
• stinging,
• stormy,
• strangled,
• strenuous,
• strident,
• stridulous,
• stringent,
• strong arm,
• strong-arm man,
• strong-armer,
• struggler,
• stud,
• stunted,
• surly,
• swashbuckler,
• sword,
• swordplayer,
• swordsman,
• table,
• tart,
• tempestuous,
• textured,
• thick,
• thorny,
• thrash,
• throaty,
• thug,
• ticklish,
• tilter,
• tinny,
• toilsome,
• tough,
• trace,
• trenchant,
• tricksy,
• tricky,
• truculent,
• trying,
• turbulent,
• tussler,
• unbecoming,
• unblown,
• uncertain,
• uncivil,
• uncivilized,
• uncompleted,
• unconscionable,
• uncouth,
• uncultivated,
• uncultured,
• uncut,
• undecorous,
• underdeveloped,
• undeveloped,
• undressed,
• unequable,
• unequal,
• uneven,
• unevenly,
• unfair,
• unfashioned,
• unfeeling,
• unfinished,
• unformed,
• unfortunate,
• ungentle,
• ungentlemanly,
• ungodly,
• ungracious,
• unhewn,
• unjust,
• unkempt,
• unlabored,
• unladylike,
• unlevel,
• unlicked,
• unlucky,
• unmethodical,
• unmetrical,
• unmusical,
• unorthodox,
• unpleasant,
• unpolished,
• unprocessed,
• unrefined,
• unregular,
• unrhythmical,
• unseemly,
• unsettled,
• unshaped,
• unsmooth,
• unsparing,
• unstable,
• unsteady,
• unsystematic,
• untreated,
• ununiform,
• unworked,
• unwrought,
• uphill,
• upstart,
• vague,
• variable,
• variegated,
• variform,
• various,
• varying,
• veering,
• vehement,
• venomous,
• violent,
• violently,
• virulent,
• vitriolic,
• vulgar,
• vulgarian,
• vulgarist,
• wallop,
• wandering,
• washboard,
• wavering,
• wicked,
• wild,
• wimpled,
• wobbling,
• wobbly,
• working drawing,
• wrangler,
• yahoo,
• yokel