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1. Having or caused by an irregular surface
   "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets";
   - unsmooth
    
2. (of persons or behaviour) lacking refinement or finesse
   "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
    
3. Not quite exact or correct
   "a rough guess";
   - approximate, approximative
    
4. Full of hardship or trials
   "they were having a rough time";
   - rocky
    
5. Violently agitated and turbulent
   "rough weather"; "rough seas";
   - boisterous, fierce
    
6. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
   "a rough voice";
   - grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy
    
7. Ready and able to resort to force or violence
   "they were rough and determined fighting men";
   - pugnacious
    
8. Not carefully or expertly made
   "rough carpentry";
   - crude
    
9. Not perfected
   "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
    
10. Unpleasantly stern
    "the nomad life is rough and hazardous";
    - harsh
     
11. Unkind, cruel or uncivil
    "a rough answer";
    - harsh
     
12. (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut, fringed or scalloped
     
13. Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
    "a rough ride";
    - rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy
     
14. Not shaped by cutting or trimming
    "rough gemstones";
    - uncut

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

1. Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
   - rough in, rough out

1. With roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly')
   "they treated him rough";
   - roughly
    
2. With rough motion as over a rough surface
   "ride rough";
   - roughly

Sounds like: rote, rough, ruff

Derived forms: rougher, roughest, roughs, roughed, roughing

See also: abrasive, aggressive, alligatored, barky, bidentate, biserrate, bouldered, bouldery, broken, bullate, bumpy, cacophonic, cacophonous, chapped, ciliate, ciliated, coarse, coarse-textured, compound, corded, costate, cracked, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenulate, crenulated, crispate, crushed, dentate, denticulate, difficult, emarginate, erose, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gravelly, hard, harsh, hilly, homespun, imbricate, imbricated, inexact, irregular, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, laciniate, lepidote, leprose, lined, mountainous, nonslippery, notched, nubbly, nubby, pebbly, pectinate, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, procellous [archaic], ribbed, rimose, rockbound, rock-ribbed [N. Amer], rocky, roughish, rough-textured, rugged, rugose, rugous [rare], runcinate, sandpapery, saw-like, saw-toothed, scabby, scabrous, scalloped, scaly, scratchy, scurfy, seamed, serrate, serrated, serrulate, shagged, shaggy, shingly, simple, slubbed, spinose, squamulose, stony, stormy, textured, toothed, tweedy, twilled, uneven, unironed, unkind, unpleasant, unpolished, unrefined, unsheared, unskilled, unsubdivided, verrucose, wartlike, warty, wrinkled

Type of: land site, prepare, site

Antonym: smooth

Part of: golf course, links course

Encyclopedia: Rough, William