rough - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• rough

More generic

• land site
• site

Related

• golf course
• links course

Verb

prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

Synonyms

• rough
• rough in
• rough out

More generic

• prepare

Adjective

ready and able to resort to force or violence

Synonyms

• pugnacious
• rough

Related

• aggressive

Adjective

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

Synonyms

• grating
• gravelly
• rasping
• raspy
• rough
• scratchy

Related

• cacophonic
• cacophonous

Adjective

violently agitated and turbulent

Synonyms

• boisterous
• fierce
• rough

Related

• stormy

Adjective

not shaped by cutting or trimming

Synonyms

• rough
• uncut

Related

• unsheared

Adjective

full of hardship or trials

Synonyms

• rocky
• rough

Related

• difficult
• hard

Adjective

not quite exact or correct

Synonyms

• approximate
• approximative
• rough

Related

• inexact

Adjective

unkind or cruel or uncivil

Synonyms

• harsh
• rough

Related

• unkind

Adjective

unpleasantly stern

Synonyms

• harsh
• rough

Related

• unpleasant

Adjective

not perfected

Synonyms

• rough

Related

• unpolished

Adjective

(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

Synonyms

• rough

Related

• unrefined

Adjective

not carefully or expertly made

Synonyms

• crude
• rough

Related

• unskilled

Adjective

having or caused by an irregular surface

Synonyms

• rough
• unsmooth

Related

• abrasive
• alligatored
• barky
• bouldered
• bouldery
• broken
• bullate
• bumpy
• chapped
• coarse-textured
• corded
• costate
• cracked
• cragged
• craggy
• crushed
• gravelly
• hilly
• homespun
• imbricate
• imbricated
• lepidote
• leprose
• lined
• mountainous
• nubbly
• nubby
• pebbly
• pocked
• pockmarked
• potholed
• ribbed
• rock-ribbed
• rockbound
• rocky
• rough-textured
• roughened
• roughish
• rugged
• rugose
• sandpapery
• saw-like
• scabby
• scabrous
• scaly
• scratchy
• scurfy
• seamed
• shagged
• shaggy
• shingly
• slubbed
• squamulose
• stony
• textured
• tweedy
• twilled
• verrucose
• wartlike
• warty

Opposite / Antonyms

• smooth

Also See

• coarse
• harsh
• irregular
• nonslippery
• uneven
• unironed
• unpolished
• wrinkled

Adjective

causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

Synonyms

• bumpy
• jolting
• jolty
• jumpy
• rocky
• rough

Opposite / Antonyms

• smooth

Adjective

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

Synonyms

• rough

Related

• bidentate
• biserrate
• ciliate
• ciliated
• crenate
• crenated
• crenulate
• crenulated
• crispate
• dentate
• denticulate
• emarginate
• erose
• fimbriate
• fringed
• jagged
• jaggy
• lacerate
• lacerated
• laciniate
• notched
• pectinate
• rimose
• runcinate
• saw-toothed
• scalloped
• serrate
• serrated
• serrulate
• spinose
• toothed

Opposite / Antonyms

• smooth

Also See

• compound
• simple
• unsubdivided

with rough motion as over a rough surface

Synonyms

• rough
• roughly

with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

Synonyms

• rough
• roughly

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