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Definition: Rough |
RoughAdjective1. 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". Adverb1. 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". Noun1. The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short. Verb1. 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) |
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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. |
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Synonyms: RoughSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Rough |
| English words defined with "rough": In the rough. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rough": Cut up Rough ♦ Rough and Ready, Rough Music, ROUGH PLANER TENDER, rough proof, rough trimmed. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rough": Trachyte. (references) |
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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) Goose in the Rough (1963) Rough and Tumble-Weed (1961) | |
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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. |
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| "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." |
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| Grind; erosive; polish; rough; scratch; scuff; sharpen; smooth; wear; churn. | |
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(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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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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. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | In 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 | 1989-1993 | There is crime to be conquered, the rough crime of the streets. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.19% | 3,307 | 2,889 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.39% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.22% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.99% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.2% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,438 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rough | Last name | 400 | 22,674 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | 麤 (coarse, rude), 草 (careless, draft, grass, hasty, manuscript, straw), 蠻 (barbarian, bullying, quite, reckless, very), 糙 (coarse), 粗砺, 粗暴 (cruel), 粗 (coarse, crude, rude, thick, unfinished, vulgar), 大概 (about, approximate, probably, roughly), 傖 (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), rå (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | skalenos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scaber. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | scabrosus. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | bronco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H te qalassa anemou megalou pneontoV dihgeireto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mare autem vento magno flante exsurgebat |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Mycel wind bleow. & hyt wæs breoht(sic) sæ. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for a greet wynde blew, the see roos vp. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ye see arose with a greate winde yt blew. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The sea was getting rough because of a strong wind which was blowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug 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 。 |
| Croatian | More se uzburkalo od silnog vjetra što je zapuhao. |
| Danish | Og Søen rejste sig, da der blæste en stærk Vind. |
| Dutch | En de zee verhief zich, overmits er een grote wind waaide. |
| Finnish | ja järvi aaltoili ankarasti kovan tuulen puhaltaessa. |
| French | Il soufflait un grand vent, et la mer était agitée. |
| German | Und das Meer erhob sich von einem großen Winde. |
| Hungarian | És a tenger a nagy szél fúvása miatt háborog vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara itu danau mulai bergelora karena angin keras. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tasik itu pun sangat berombak, sebab angin keras bertiup. |
| Italian | Il mare era agitato, perché soffiava un forte vento. |
| Korean | 큰 바 람 이 불 어 파 도 가 일 어 나 더 라 |
| Latvian | Bet jûra, pûðot stipram vçjam, bangojâs. |
| Maori | Na ko te turanga o te moana, he nui hoki no te puhanga o te hau. |
| Norwegian | Og sjøen gikk høit, for det blåste en sterk vind. |
| Portuguese | ademais, o mar se empolava, porque soprava forte vento. |
| Rumanian | Sufla un vknt puternic wi marea era kntqrktatq. |
| Russian | дХМ УЙМШОЩК ЧЕФЕТ, Й НПТЕ ЧПМОПЧБМПУШ. |
| Shuar | Tura nase ti Umpúakui Chíchimi ti wajaimiayi. |
| Spanish | Y se agitaba el mar porque soplaba un gran viento. |
| Swahili | Ziwa likaanza kuchafuka kwa sababu upepo mkali ulikuwa unavuma. |
| Swedish | och sjön gick hög, ty det blåste hårt. |
| Uma | Bula-ra mosakaya toe, rata ngolu' bohe mporumpa' -ra, alaa-na bohe balumpa hi rano. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rough" (pronounced ru"f) |
| 3 | r u" f | gruff, ruff. |
| 2 | -u" f | bluff, 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. | ||
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. | |
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