rough (
http://definr.com/rough)
adj 1: having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough
bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin";
"rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth
writing" [syn:
unsmooth] [ant:
smooth]
2: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she
was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
3: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10
o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn:
approximate,
approximative,
ballpark]
4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
"they were having a rough time" [syn:
rocky]
5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn:
boisterous,
fierce]
6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn:
grating,
gravel,
gravelly,
rasping,
raspy]
7: 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" [syn:
pugnacious]
8: (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut
or fringed or scalloped [ant:
smooth]
9: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond";
"rough gemstones" [syn:
uncut] [ant:
cut]
10: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
"rough carpentry" [syn:
crude]
11: not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
12: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand
and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
[syn:
harsh]
n : the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the
grass is not cut short
adv 1: with roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside";
(`rough' is informal as in "they treated him rough")
[syn:
roughly]
2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
[syn:
roughly]
v 1: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn:
rough in, {rough
out}]
2: draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"
[syn:
draft,
outline]