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Rough

Definition: Rough

Rough

Adjective

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".

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".

4. Full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time".

5. Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas".

6. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice".

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".

8. (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped.

9. Not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones".

10. : not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry".

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".

Adverb

1. With roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside"; (`rough' is informal as in "they treated him rough").

2. With rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough".

Noun

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

Verb

1. Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form.

2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rough" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Rough

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Harsh wine, rich in tannin and lacking softness. Source: European Union. (references)
 Characteristic perception in certain oils which, when tasted, produce a thick, pasty mouthfeel sensation. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Highly fractured, broken, or cavey ground b. An uncut gemstone. Pertaining to an uncut or unpolished gemstone; e.g.,a rough diamond e.g.,a rough diamond. (references)

Slang in 1811

ROUGH. To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the bare deck of a ship, when the person is commonly advised to chuse the softest plank. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Rough

Synonyms: approximate (adj), approximative (adj), ballpark (adj), boisterous (adj), crude (adj), fierce (adj), grating (adj), gravel (adj), gravelly (adj), harsh (adj), pugnacious (adj), rasping (adj), raspy (adj), rocky (adj), uncut (adj), unsmooth (adj), roughly (adv), draft (v), outline (v), rough in (v), rough out (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: cut (adj), smooth (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rough

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amorphism

Adjective: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.

Aphony

Croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.

Blusterer

Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough.

Combatant

Noun: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.

Commonalty

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Discourtesy

Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.

Evil doer

Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief.

Nonuniformity

Adjective: diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough; multifarious; multiform; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of.

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Unsavoriness

Adjective: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rough

English words defined with "rough": In the rough. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rough": Cut up RoughRough and Ready, Rough Music, ROUGH PLANER TENDER, rough proof, rough trimmed. (references)
Etymologies containing "rough": Trachyte. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rough

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston)

Thanks. It comes from growing up in a rough neighborhood (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Can't you give me a rough estimate (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

I had a rough (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Lyrics

But now tha road got rough, your alone (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough (TUNNEL OF LOVE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

When these times get rough (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

And ironing out the rough spots (Sad Songs (Say So Much); performing artist: Elton John)

Don't wanna try don't wanna try i 'bout just had enough its been a rough road (Don't Wanna Try; performing artist: FRANKIE J)

Movie/TV Titles

Rough Magic (1972)

The Rough with the Smooth (1971)

Rough Sketch of a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1968)

Goose in the Rough (1963)

Rough and Tumble-Weed (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rough

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Rough Steel and Iron Forgings and Stampings in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Rough Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings and Stampings Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Rough Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings and Stampings Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Rough Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings and Stampings: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Rough Guide to Belize: Includes Tikal and the Bay Islands (Belize (Rough Guides)) (reference)

  • The Mini Rough Guide to Melbourne [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • The Rough Guide Melbourne (Rough Guides) (reference)

  • The Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook Mexico Spanish (Rough Guide Phrasebooks) (reference)

  • Rough Side of Moun (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Rough

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Photo Album: Rough

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A flat red spot that is rough, dry or scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A flat, red spot that has become rough, dry and scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Blood agar plate culture of Corynebacterium diptheriae (gravis), rough. McLeod's. Credit: CDC.

The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots, and can appear on both the palms of the hands as well as on the plantar surface (bottom) of the feet. Credit: CDC.

Mariner 9 image of the "Inca City". During the Mariner 9 mission, scientists found an unusual rectilinear structure associatedwith the south polar pitted terrain which they dubbed the "Inca City". Located near-80 degrees latitude and 64 degrees longitude, it is likely the result of wind deflationof deposits from underlying rough terrain. The "cells" in the image are about 4-5kilometers in width. Credit: NASA.

Rough weather during oceanographic operations on stern OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A rough ride down Drove his head right into the ground Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Rough sea ice near Ross Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Emptying the catch on the sorting table. The yellow and bluelines are "the tangles". The tangles ride on the bottom and stops chaffing of the net on rough bottom. Credit: Fisheries.

A DEM worker unloads quahogs into the rough waters, in early spring, outside Greenwich Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Rough
 

"Rough Car" by Núria Fortuny
Commentary: ".."Cosetes que es poden trobar al xatarrero de Balaguer"."
"Rough wall" by Steve
Commentary: "A strange side of a building in liverpool."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Rough".

PlayCaption
Grind; erosive; polish; rough; scratch; scuff; sharpen; smooth; wear; churn.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Rough

AuthorQuotation

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Author Unknown

Pay as you go or you'll have a rough road back.
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

Earl and Chesterfield

Even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

George Meredith

Caricature is rough truth.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Sir Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

William Shakespeare

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Rough

AuthorDateQuotation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1903)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Rough

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He felt that he was rough, and that Marius was cold

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His mother had told him not to speak with the rough boys in the college

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And as they crawled up the rough road toward Needles and the highway, Ma looked back

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rough

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This is a very rough estimate. (references)

A solution is put on the tooth surface that makes the tooth a little rough. (references)

Avoid highly spiced foods and textures that are dry and rough, such as crackers. (references)

Business

Unlike Japan and South Korea, the Chinese market will primarily consume raw round wood and rough lumber. (references)

According to consumers’ views, Russian perfumes are too rough, sharp and not fashionable; they do not have their style. (references)

Norway, with its harsh winter climate, rough terrain, and tradition of outdoor activities is well suited for SUV’s and 4WD vehicles. (references)

Economic History

Czech Rep

U.S. statistics are Commercial Service rough estimates. (references)

Fiji

The interior is sparsely populated due to its rough terrain. (references)

Peru

Rice from Asia, and rough rice, is now excluded for phytosanitary reasons. (references)

Human Rights

Burkina Faso

The law prohibits such practices; however, members of the security forces continued to abuse persons, and suspects often are subject to beatings, rough handling, and threats, frequently to extract confessions. (references)

Pakistan

The Government has made no efforts to investigate the incident, and is unlikely to do so. Another related form of rough justice operating in the NWFP, particularly in the tribal areas, is the concept of Pakhtunwali, or the Pakhtun Tribal Code, in which revenge is an important element. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Most of the country's 40-60,000 Roma (a rough estimate - no reliable figures exist) live a precarious existence. (references)

Political Economy

Kyrgyz Republic

The country is poor and mountainous, with a rough balance between agricultural and industrial production and a population of approximately 4.75 million. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

Goods shipped to Sri Lanka should be well-packed in order to withstand heat, humidity, rough handling and pilferage. (references)

Mexico

The agreement with the European Union was modeled after the NAFTA and provides EU goods with rough NAFTA parity from 2003 onwards. (references)

Travel

Greece

Main streets and highways are paved, while secondary roads are generally rough. (references)

Russia

Water-resistant footwear with thick soles is advised, because the pavement is often rough and large puddles form after rain. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

Since trafficked women generally are deported under immigration law as prostitutes, immigration statistics may provide only a rough picture of the scale of the problem. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Rough

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Angela Ricci

You don't have to sign anything. At least I don't remember signing anything. Now, it was a rough moment there. But just letting the doctor and the staff know that it's OK to pull the ventilator.

Barbara Eden

I don't know that I had a rough childhood. My parents were children of the Depression. I had a poor childhood. We didn't have a lot of money. But I had a wonderful childhood. I had a family that was very warm and loving.

Lisa French

From the kids playing too hard, too rough with her. So, Terry was working day and night, he was making like minimum wage, or maybe a little bit more, trying to support, you know, five other people besides himself. And it just wasn't working.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Rough

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Gerald Ford

1974-1977In an era where the strategic nuclear forces are in rough equilibrium, the risks of conflict below the nuclear threshold may grow more perilous.

George Bush

1989-1993There is crime to be conquered, the rough crime of the streets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rough

"Rough" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.19% of the time. "Rough" is used about 3,438 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)96.19%3,3072,889
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.39%4849,194
Noun (proper)1.22%4252,864
Lexical Verb (base form)0.99%3459,261
Adverb (general)0.2%7133,076
                    Total100.00%3,438N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Rough

The following table summarizes the usage of "rough" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RoughLast name40022,674
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Rough

Expressions using "rough": a rough copy a rough diamond at a rough estimate at a rough guess be rough cut up rough design rough airspeed diamond in the rough feel rough from the rough get rough give a rough time give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue have a rough time have a rough time of it have a rough tongue he had a rough time however rough it is in a rough copy in a rough state in rough in the rough it is true in the rough it's rough on him make rough perfectly rough surface play a rough game play rough ride rough over rough 2) thumbnail rough and ready rough and tumble rough as a bear rough as a nutmeg grater rough bindweed rough book rough breathing rough bristlegrass rough bryony rough calculation rough cast rough coniferous tree rough copy rough customer rough cut rough dab rough diamond rough draft rough drawing rough estimate rough file rough fish rough flat file rough game rough gas rough gemstone rough grazing rough green snake rough guess rough handle rough horsetail rough in rough it rough job rough justice rough landing rough log rough luck rough map rough neck rough out rough outline rough paper rough pea rough planed surface rough play rough player rough precious stone rough proof rough puff pastry rough ray rough rice rough rider Rough Rock rough sandstone rough sea rough sketch rough smb. up rough spoken rough stuff rough terrain vehicle rough the wrong way rough timber rough time rough translation rough trimmed rough up rough voice rough voiced rough water rough weather. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rough": rough-actioned, rough-and-crusty-but-it'll-wash-off-by-monday-morning, rough-and-readiness, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, rough-and-tumbles, rough-at-the-edges, rough-barked, rough-cast, rough-chopped, rough-coated, rough-country, rough-crushed, rough-curl, rough-cut, rough-cuts, rough-dry, rough-edged, rough-faced, rough-fighting, Rough-footed, Rough-grained, rough-grassed, rough-grind, rough-haired, rough-handed, rough-hew, rough-hewed, rough-hewn, rough-house, rough-ironed, rough-leaved aster, Rough-legged, rough-legged buzzard, rough-legged hawk, rough-looking, rough-lying, rough-machine, rough-mannered, rough-mirror, rough-mouthed, rough-neck, rough-plane, rough-planned, rough-plaster, rough-plastered, rough-plastering, rough-raddled, rough-ride, rough-rider, rough-road, rough-sand, rough-sawn, rough-scented, rough-sharpening, rough-shaven, rough-shelled, rough-shod, rough-sketched, rough-skin plum, rough-skinned, rough-skinned newt, rough-spoken, rough-stalked, rough-stemmed goldenrod, rough-surfaced, rough-textured, rough-topped, rough-tough, rough-trade, rough-trimmed, rough-up, rough-voiced, rough-walled, rough-weather, rough-woven, rough-wrought.

Ending with "rough": semi-rough.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rough

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

asia guide rough southeast

6,377

gem rough

44

rough sex

962

rough country suspension

44

rough

618

note rough

44

frisco rider rough

342

rough trade

43

rough rider

260

amsterdam rough guide

42

rough guide

248

favorite member rough sex video

42

rough teen sex

128

rough teen

40

blow job rough

119

rough creek lodge

36

rough collie

100

rough gem stone

36

rough country

96

diamond in the rough

34

rough tumble

78

lake river rough

29

river rough

64

saskatchewan rough rider

29

opal rough

63

baseball frisco rider rough

28

rough sea

57

rough trade record

27

anal rough

54

rough cut lumber

25

baseball rider rough

49

bang gang rough

24

rough diamond

48

rough green snake

24

rough sex video

45

rough shooting

23

rough sex movie

45

park river rough state

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Rough

Language Translations for "rough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

rou (crude, raw, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

rrugaç (Barker, guttersnipe, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, thug, vagrant, whelp, yob, yobbo), i thyer (aged, bent, broken, cloven, decrepit, exhausted, montane, old, rugged, split, uneven), dorë e parë (undercoat), gropa-gropa (rugged), hor (black sheep), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), i përafërt (approximate), i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, Hick, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, uncouth, unhewn), i palëmuar (home-bred, homespun, rude, shaggy, unequal, unhewn, unmounted), i papërpunuar (crude, green, home-bred, inelaborate, native, undressed), anë e pakëndshme e njeriut, i thartë (acetous, acid, acidulous, sharp, sour, tart), skicoj (design, draft, draught, lay down, plat, sketch, touch off), i trazuar (agog, boisterous, distempered, disturbed, flurried, haywire, lumpy, mixed, on edge, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, vexed), i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), jetoj pa komoditet, kopje pune, me sopa e gropa, sajoj në vija të trasha, skicë (cartoon, chart, dash, delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, figure, freehand, outline, plan, profile, sketch), i sertë (dour, hard, hard boiled, hard-fisted, harsh, iron-bound, ornery, rigid, rigorous, severe, steely, stern, stiff, wayward). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سلك مسلكا فظا, ‏أرض وعرة, ‏أجش (coarse, coarsen, cracked, gravelly, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, raucous, rusty, throaty), ‏أصبح عنيف, ‏إخشوشن (harden, shrivel), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild), ‏جلف (blunt, boorish, coarse, crude, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, roughneck, rude, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil, uncouth), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏خشن الشىء, ‏خاشن (maltreat, maul, mishandle), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏صمم (block out, deafness, design, devise, engineer, mold, mould, pattern, plan, premeditate, project, promise, resolve, sketch, will), ‏شظف (harsh), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏غير منظم (amorphous, erratic, patchy, ragged, unorganized), ‏حيي حياة قاسية, ‏وعر (broken, bumpy, hairy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, malaise, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rugged, sharp, steep, tight), ‏قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), ‏قاس صلب (callous, concrete, firm, hard, harsh, inflexible, relentless, rigid, ruthless, severe, solid, stiff, strict, tough), ‏قاسي (austere, drastic, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, harsh, rugged, severe, sharp, slashing, stern, stony, strait, strict, stringent, tough, unyielding), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏لعب يخشونة, ‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), ‏مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), ‏عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, wild, winded, windy, wintry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

брутален (atrocious, brutal, ruffianly), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild), неприятна страна, нахвърлям в общи черти (rough out), загрубял (coarsened, gnarled, knotty, weather beaten, weather-worn), жестоко (hardly), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), неравна част на игрище, буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), неравност (accident, asperity, bump, inequality, irregularity, roughness, unevenness), бандит (bandit, brigand, bush-ranger, bushwhacker, butch, hijacker, hold-up-man, mosstrooper, tough), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar), правя шипове, правя грапавини, правя неравен, дрезгав (cracked, grating, gravelly, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, ragged, raspy, raucous, rusty, throaty), бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild), с лишения, стипчив (acerb, acerbic, sharp), рунтав (bushy, fleecy, ragged, scraggly, shag, shaggy, thick), рошав (brushy, ragged, scraggly, scraggy, shag, shaggy, towheaded, unkempt), разбунтуван (mutinous), хулиган (bully, butch, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, lout, punk, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway, yob), трудност (ado, crux, difficulty, hardness, hardship, hurdle, involvement, knot, nicety, severity, stumbling block, toughness), необработен (crude, raw, rude, uncultivated, uncultured, undressed, waste), шип (barb, calk, ferrule, journal, nib, prick, prickle, spine, spur, thorn), суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), с придихание, грубо (baldly, grossly, offhand, roughly, shortly), грубиян (abuser, bohunk, boor, bulldozer, chuff, churl, clown, hottentot, larrikin, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, savage, yap), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), грапава страна на нещо, грапав (coarse, inelegant, irregular, jagged, ragged, rugged, uneven), тежко (badly, heavily, severely, sore, sorely). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(coarse, rude), (careless, draft, grass, hasty, manuscript, straw), (barbarian, bullying, quite, reckless, very), (coarse), 粗砺, 粗暴 (cruel), (coarse, crude, rude, thick, unfinished, vulgar), 大概 (about, approximate, probably, roughly), (low fellow, rude, rustic). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvlnìný (corrugated, undulated, wavy), zdrsnit (roughen), vulgární (brassy, rank, scurrilous, vulgar), výtržník (brawler, heckler, hoodlum, troublemaker), okovat (tip), nerovný (broken, inequitable, odd, one sided, ragged, rugged, unequal, uneven), necitelný (callous, hard boiled, heartless, impassable, unfeeling), násilník (bully, bullyboy, mugger, rapist, thug), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), hrubì zacházet, hrbolatý (bumpy, knobby, nodulated, rugged, uneven), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind), cuchat, chlupatý (furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ru (coarse). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onbewerkt (crude, raw, unrefined, unwrought), ruw (abusive, brute, coarse, crude, harsh), ruig (coarse, crude, hairy, raw, shaggy, unrefined, unwrought), onbehouwen (crude, raw, uneducated, unrefined, unwrought), grof (abusive, coarse, common, crude, everyday, harsh, raw, unrefined, unwrought, vulgar), cru (crude, raw, unrefined, unwrought), bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, bone, crude, foolish, raw, stupid, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malglata (coarse), malafabla (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, surly, unkind, unpleasant), kruda (crude, raw). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

ráur (crude, raw, unrefined, unwrought), óblíður (bleak, brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ناهموار (Bumpy, Jagged, Ragged, Rude, Rugged, Scaly, Uneven, Unfair), ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), زمخت کردن (Gross), زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Churlish, Clumsy, Coarse, Crass, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rude, Rugged, Tough), زبر (Coarse, Prickly, Ragged, Russet, Russeting, Scaly, Shaggy, Stark, Stubby), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), دست مالی کردن (Scrabble), درشت (Abrupt, Brutish, Crass, Gross, Gruff, Harsh, Jumbo, Large, Lump, Sturdy), بهم زدن (Disturb, Overthrow, Poach, Poke, Rouse, Roust, Rummage, Stir, Unmake). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rosoinen (rugged, uneven), karkea (coarse, harsh, rude), karhea (aspero, harsh, scabrous). (various references)

   

French

  

rugueux, grossier (rough and ready), brut, rude, cru. (various references)

   

German

  

rauh (abrasive, bleak, bleakly, coarse, crude, gnarled, grating, gravelly, gruff, harsh, harshly, hoarse, husky, inclement, inclemently, raucous, raucously, raw, roughly, rugged, scraggly, severe, sore, stark, throatily, throaty, tough, unrefined, unwrought, wild), roh (barbarous, brute, crude, earthy, low-bred, ordinary, rare, raw, roughly, ruffianly, uncooked, undressed, unhewn, unrefined, untreated, unwrought). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τραχύς (abrasive, gruff, harsh, husky). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

גס (bulky, clumsy, coarse, crude, impolite, indelicate, lubricious, rude). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyersen (abruptly, assertively, bluntly, brusquely, gruffly, gruffy, in the raw, in the rough, raspingly, raw, surlily), goromba (bouncy, brusque, chuff, churlish, coarse, crude, foulmouthed, graceless, gross, hirsute, rude, ruffianly, surly), egyenetlen terep, durván (beastly, boorishly, churlishly, crassly, grossly, harshly, impiously, outrageously, roughly), érdes (choppy, coarse, cragged, harsh, hirsute, hoarse, muddy, ragged, raspy, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scrapy, scratchy). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

óvingjarnlegur (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), óvænn (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gerutu (coarse), gerasakan, geradakan (uneven), gabas (aorse, mot tidy), cowboy (cowboy, rowdy), berat (heavy, weight). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scabro (harsh, hoarse, raucous, raw, scabrous, terse, throaty), rude (brutal, coarse, gruff, harsh, rude, rugged, sour, sullen, surly, tough, unkind, unpleasant), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, cavalier, downright, gruff, harsh, offhand, offhanded, outspoken, sharp, short, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), ruvido (coarse, crabbed, harsh, rugged, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, shaggy), rozzo (boorish, churlish, coarse, crude, cubbish, impolite, loutish, rank, rude, rugged, uncouth, unmannerly, unsubtle), grezzo (coarse, crude, raw, rude, ruffianly, rustic, unwrought), crudo (crude, piping, raw, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

荒い (rude, wild), 粗野 (rude, rustic, vulgar), 粗末 (crude, humble, plain), 粗い (coarse). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そほう (careless), けいかくのある (angular, harsh-mannered), やせい (uncouth, unpolished, wild), らんぼう (lawless, reckless, rude, unreasonable, violent), あらあらしい (desolate, gruff, harsh, rude, violent, wild), あらい (coarse, rude, wild), あらっぽい (rude), てあら (violent), そりゃく (coarse, crude), おおざっぱ (broad, sketchy), ざつ (crude), そまつ (crude, humble, plain), そざつ (coarse, crude), ラフ , おおづかみ (generally), おおまか (broad, general, generous), そや (rude, rustic, vulgar). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

거친 (Abrasive, husky, lumpy, Ragged). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thalloo garroo, ruggagh (harsh, rugged), reeastaneagh (moorish, uncultivated, waste, wild, wild terrain), reeastagh (moorish, uncultivated, waste, wild, wild terrain), rastagh (blustery, boisterous, gusty, squally, stormy, windy), raghtanagh (harsh, headstrong, indigent, obstinate, stubborn), neurea (entangled, lumpy, scraggy, uneven, uneven as ground), mollagh (bushy, hirsute, rough-coated, rude, rugged), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), dy garroo, carragh (carious, crazy, rocky, scab, scurfy, scurvy), breckey (bespeckle, brindle, chequer, chequering, dapple, dappled, embroider, freckle, jotting, mottle, pebble, sharpen, spot, sprinkle, variegate, variegation), barbagh (rough-mannered, rude, rugged, severe, sharp), barb (a sharp point, cruel, drastic, javelin, sharp). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

uvennlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

krudo (crude, raw, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oughray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

nieuprzejmy (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

áspero (abrupt, acerb, bluff, coarse, cornered, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, scrawny, seamy, severe), rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), cru (crude, indigested, rare, raw, rawhide, unbaked, unbleached, unboiled, uncooked), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, curt, gruff, harsh, hit-and-run, jerky, sour, sudden, surly, unceremonious, unkind, unpleasant), bronco (clod, crude, dullard, dunderhead, harsh, raw, shaggy, slow, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), bruftui (abuse, reprimand, rough-plaster), furtunos (agitated, boisterous, disorderly, gusty, rugged, stormy, tempestuous), face o schiţã (outline, sketch, take a sketch of), estimativ (estimated), dur (callous, difficult, dour, firm, hard, harsh, rigid, roughly, stern, strict, stubborn, troublesome), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), cui (cotter, nail, peg, pin, Spike, sprig, stud, whose), bulgãros (Cloggy), ţepos (caustic, hirsute, spiky, spiny, stinging, thorny), brut (coarse, crude, earthy, gross, raw, sheer, undigested), lipsã de aranjare, bolovãnos (stony), bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, cad, churl, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, oaf, peasant, yokel), şlefui (abrade, file, furbish, grind, lap, mill, smooth), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), aproximativ (about, approx., approximate, approximately, approximative, at a rough estimate, circa, general, much, near, nearly, or so, quasi, roughly, round, roundabout, some, thereabouts), accidentat (billowy, broken, bumpy, casualty, hilly, injured, odd, rugged, troubled, uneven, wounded), în mod grosolan, brutal (beastly, boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, insensate, roughly, rude, savage, savagely, truculent, violent), pietros (flinty, rocky, stony), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), vijelios (stormy, tempestuous), trata cu asprime, teren accidentat (bump), stare brutã (roughness), se rãsti la, scorţos (hard, stiff), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), huligan (bulldozer, bully, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, rough neck, rowdy, ruffian, tough), parte neplãcutã, ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, regular, slavish, trivial, unrefined, usual, vulgar), neprelucrat (crude, raw, rude), neplãceri (disagreeable), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), nearanjat (unaccommodating), zburlit (shaggy), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgrabach, garbh (coarse, harsh, hoarse). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neuljudan (ill mannered, impolite, rude, unbecoming, uncomely, unmannerly), čupav (nappy, ragged), grub (boorish, brusque, bumptious, coarse, crude, harsh, indelicate, lowbrow, rough and ready, rough and tumble), grubo (bungle, hardly, harshly, rough: in the rough, roughly), grubo nacrtati, hrapav (coarse, cracked, harsh, husky, ragged, rasping, raucous, rugged, scabrous, scraggy), aspiriran, neravan (bumpy, cloggy, rugged, scabrous, uneven), uzburkan (choppy, tempestuous, tumultuous), ogrubeo (coarse, coarsened), olujan (stormy), približan (approximate, round), siledžija (assailant, bucko, bully, goon, hooligan, plug ugly, punk, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian), sirovost (rawness, vulgarism), težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty), iskecan (worn out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desigual (bumpy, coarse, different, inequable, irregular, one sided, unequal, uneven), áspero (abrupt, acid, brusque, coarse, crotchety, disagreeable, grating, hackly, hard, harsh, jagged, rasping, rugged, scraggy, severe, sharp, sour, strict, tart, unpolished), crudo (crude, green, raw, uncooked, unrefined, unwrought), bronco (abrupt, brazen, brittle, brutal, crude, gruff, harsh, raw, ruffianly, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant, unworked, unwrought), brusko (brutal, gruff, harsh, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), aspero (uneven). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sträv (abrasive, bristly, coarse, gruff, harsh, scabrous), grov (bearish, big, boeotian, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, earthy, fulsome, gross, heavy, inelegant, large, rank, raw, rough spoken, rude, thick), skrovlig (abrasive, craggy, gravelly, hoarse, husky, raucous, rugged, scabrous), (advise, bestial, boundary, brute, churlish, coarse, counsel, crude, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, gross, primitive, raw, sprite, tough, uncooked, vulgar, yard), ojämn (bumpy, fitful, ignorant, inequable, irregular, jagged, jaggy, joggly, odd, patchy, ragged, spotty, streaky, unequal, uneven), obearbetad (crude, inelaborate, raw, rude), knagglig (uneven), hårdhänt. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไม่เป็นระเบียบ (irregular), ไม่ได้ตกแต่ง, ทำให้ขรุขระ, ทุรกันดาร, ต้นร่าง, หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, ill-bred, indecency, indecent, mucky, neanderthal, ribald, robustious, rude, swinish), คนที่ใช้ความรุนแรง, คร่าวๆ (sketchy, some, superficial), ขรุขระ (bumpy, ragged, rugged), มีพายุรุนแรง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rahatsız edici (annoying, besetting, disturbing, fraught, haunting, hot, inconvenient, irritant, irritating, noisy, pesky, plaguesome, strident, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, worrying), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, bouncing, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), külhanbeyi (hoodlum, plug ugly, roughneck, rowdy, runagate), kötü davranmak (abuse, discriminate against smb., ill treat, maltreat, misdemean, mishandle, mistreat, outrage, ride rough over, serve, snub, tramp down, use smb. ill), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), itip kakmak (jostle, push around, rough handle, shove), işlenmemiş şey, işlenmemiş (crude, raw, rude, unbroken, uncommitted, uncultivated, uncut, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, unlaboured, unreclaimed, untilled, unworked), hoyrat (boorish, flat-footed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, loutish, rustic, uncouth, vulgar), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy), geçici olarak (momentarily, pro forma, pro temp, pro tempore, temporarily), kabaca (clownishly, coarsely, disobligingly, foul, impolitely, in bold outline, loose, roughly, rudely, shortly, sketchy, vulgarly), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, ugly, wild), engebeli arazi, engebeli (bumpy, rude, rugged, uneven), eğreti (artificial, Band aid, extrinsic, improvised, jury, makeshift, stopgap, temporary, transitory), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), dalgalı (alternating, billowy, choppy, corrugated, flowing, restless, undate, undated, undulated, undulating, waved, wavy), cilasız (unfinished, unpolished, unvarnished), aşağı yukarı (about, approximately, approximative, around, circa, close on, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, in the rough, just about, more or less, nigh, pretty much, roughly, roundly, some, something like, sub-, thereabout, to and fro, tolerably), haşin (austere, crusty, forbidding, harsh, inclement, rude, severe, stern, truculent), pürüzlendirmek (roughen, roughen up), zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, sticky, stiff, strain, tight, trickish, uneasy), yaklaşık (about, approximate, approximative, circa, just about, proximate, some, well nigh), terbiye etmek (break in, bring up, chasten, discipline, edify, educate, housebreak, manage, nurture, polish, school, teach manners, train), taslak halinde olan, taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, draught, drawing, outline, plan, roughcast, schema, silhouette, skeleton, sketch, study, tracing, visual), sertçe (hardly, keenly, sharp, strongly, subacid), sert çıkmak, sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), kaba saba (clownish, coarse, common, gauche, rank, robust, robustious, rude), pürtüklü, kaba tip, pürüzlü (granular, jagged, scabrous, shaggy, uneven), nal kayarı takmak, nal kayarı, müsvedde (draft, draught, rough copy, roughcast, work sheet), müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), kulak tırmalayıcı (piping, rasping), kabataslak (in outline, roughly, rude, sketchy), kabadayı (blusterer, bulldozer, bully, Hector, hoodlum, hooligan, rapscallion, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, swashbuckler, tough, toughie, villain), zorluk (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, gruelling, hardness, hardship, hassle, hobble, rigor, rigour, strain, stumbling block, tightness, toughness), pütür pütür yapmak. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

garalama (draft, rough copy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

робити грубим (coarsen, roughen), щось грубе на вигляд, черновий, кошлатий (bushy, horrid, pilose, pilous, shaggy), кошлати, грубішати (coarsen), грубо (abruptly, grossly, roughly, rudely, shrewdly), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), нерівно (roughly), нерівна місцевість, нерівний (anomalous, banky, broken, drunken, humpy, inconstant, inequable, irregular, ragged, rugged, splashy, stair-step, tremulant, tremulous, unequal, uneven, unsteady), необроблено, необроблений (coarse, crude, natural, nontreated, raw, uncultivated, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, waste, wild), приблизно (about, approximately, around, in the rough, just about, more or less, or so, some, something). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ráp (harsh, roughly, unsmooth), lỗ mãng (brusque, crude, cubbish, roughly, scurrilous), bảo tố, cái đại thể (general), cộc cằn gian khổ, cảnh gian truân, chưa gọt giũa (crude), chưa trau chuốt thô lỗ, dữ (angry, violently), gồ ghề (roughly, rugged, uneven, unlevelled, unsmooth), gần đúng ầm ĩ, gay go (arduously, severse, sore, trying), hỗn độn (chaotic, messy, mussy), bờm xờm (ragged, roughly), hung dữ (boisterous, fierce, tearing, towering), xù xì (roughly), lởm chởm dữ dội (roughly), mạnh (hard, intense, intensive, marrowy, mighty, smart, telling, thundering), nặng nề nháp, nhám, nhọc nhằn, phác (roughly, sketchy), phỏng, sống sượng (brusque, roughly), thô bạo (discourteous, harsh, roughly), trạng thái thô, xỉ vả ai đẩy ai vào một tình trạng khó khăn, hoàn cảnh khó khăn cái chung. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sgaprwth (uncouth), gerwin (austere, harsh, severe), garw (bluff, coarse), didoriad (unbroken, untamed), clogyrnaidd (clumsy, rugged), anfynud (discourteous, unkind, unrefined), anfanol (uncouth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rough

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

skalenos. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

scaber. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

scabrosus. (various references)

Spanish900-Modern

bronco. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Rough

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 6, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintH te qalassa anemou megalou pneontoV dihgeireto
Latin405VulgateMare autem vento magno flante exsurgebat
Old English990West SaxonMycel wind bleow. & hyt wæs breoht(sic) sæ.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd for a greet wynde blew, the see roos vp.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd ye see arose with a greate winde yt blew.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
Basic English1964OgdenThe sea was getting rough because of a strong wind which was blowing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Rough

LanguageJohn Chapter 6, Verse 18
CebuanoUg ang lanaw misugod na sa pagbalud tungod sa makusog nga hangin nga naghuros.
Chinese忽 然 狂 風 大 作 、 海 就 翻 騰 起 來 。
CroatianMore se uzburkalo od silnog vjetra što je zapuhao.
DanishOg Søen rejste sig, da der blæste en stærk Vind.
DutchEn de zee verhief zich, overmits er een grote wind waaide.
Finnishja järvi aaltoili ankarasti kovan tuulen puhaltaessa.
FrenchIl soufflait un grand vent, et la mer était agitée.
GermanUnd das Meer erhob sich von einem großen Winde.
HungarianÉs a tenger a nagy szél fúvása miatt háborog vala.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSementara itu danau mulai bergelora karena angin keras.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka tasik itu pun sangat berombak, sebab angin keras bertiup.
ItalianIl mare era agitato, perché soffiava un forte vento.
Korean큰 바 람 이 불 어 파 도 가 일 어 나 더 라
LatvianBet jûra, pûðot stipram vçjam, bangojâs.
MaoriNa ko te turanga o te moana, he nui hoki no te puhanga o te hau.
NorwegianOg sjøen gikk høit, for det blåste en sterk vind.
Portugueseademais, o mar se empolava, porque soprava forte vento.   
RumanianSufla un vknt puternic wi marea era kntqrktatq.
RussianдХМ УЙМШОЩК ЧЕФЕТ, Й НПТЕ ЧПМОПЧБМПУШ.
ShuarTura nase ti Umpúakui Chíchimi ti wajaimiayi.
SpanishY se agitaba el mar porque soplaba un gran viento.
SwahiliZiwa likaanza kuchafuka kwa sababu upepo mkali ulikuwa unavuma.
Swedishoch sjön gick hög, ty det blåste hårt.
UmaBula-ra mosakaya toe, rata ngolu' bohe mporumpa' -ra, alaa-na bohe balumpa hi rano.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rough

Derivations

Words beginning with "rough": roughage, roughages, roughcast, roughcasting, roughcasts, roughdried, roughdries, roughdry, roughdrying, roughed, roughen, roughened, roughening, roughens, rougher, roughers, roughest, roughhew, roughhewed, roughhewing, roughhewn, roughhews, roughhouse, roughhoused, roughhouses, roughhousing, roughing, roughish, roughleg, roughlegs, roughly, roughneck, roughnecks, roughness, roughnesses, roughrider, roughriders, roughs, roughshod. (additional references)

Words ending with "rough": borough, breakthrough, interborough, thorough, through, trough, unrough, wherethrough, yarborough. (additional references)

Words containing "rough": boroughs, breakthroughs, brougham, broughams, brought, drought, droughtier, droughtiest, droughtiness, droughtinesses, droughts, droughty, handwrought, interboroughs, interwrought, outwrought, overwrought, rewrought, thoroughbass, thoroughbasses, thoroughbrace, thoroughbraces, thoroughbred, thoroughbreds, thorougher, thoroughest, thoroughfare, thoroughfares, thoroughgoing, thoroughly, thoroughness, thoroughnesses, thoroughpin, thoroughpins, thoroughwort, thoroughworts, throughither, throughly, throughother, throughout, throughput, throughputs, throughway, throughways, troughs, wrought, yarboroughs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Broguh, brough, crough, frough, gough, kough, Kroff, mough, nough, Orgh, ough, raargh, Rargh, reigh, roath, rogh, rogu, roih, romusha, Rouah, rouch, rouf, roug, rougy, rouj, roush, routh, rugh, rughe, ruhuhu, Ruog, Rurgh, rurghhh, rurh, Ru'uf, vough, zough. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rough"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rough" (pronounced ru"f)
3r u" fgruff, ruff.
2-u" fbluff, buff, cuff, Duff, enough, fluff, guff, huff, Luff, muff, puff, rebuff, scuff, Slough, snuff, stuff, tough, Tuff.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rough

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-o-r-u"

-1 letter: hour.

-2 letters: gor, hog, hug, our, rho, rug, ugh.

-3 letters: go, ho, oh, or, uh.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: grouch, roughs, trough.

 

+2 letters: borough, brought, cougher, drought, grouchy, homburg, roguish, roughed, roughen, rougher, roughly, sorghum, through, tougher, troughs, unrough, wrought, yoghurt.

 

+3 letters: boroughs, broguish, brougham, choragus, choregus, coughers, doughier, droughts, droughty, furlough, grouched, grouches, guacharo, homburgs, humoring, hungover, outright, overhung, plougher, rebought, refought, resought, roughage, roughdry, roughens, roughers, roughest, roughhew, roughing, roughish, roughleg, sorghums, thorough, upgrowth, yoghourt, yoghurts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Frequency
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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