Synonyms of the word

rough

• adj. Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
• adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
• adj. Turbulent.
• adj. Difficult; trying.
• adj. Crude; unrefined.
• adj. Violent; not careful or subtle.
• adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
• adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
• adj. Harsh-tasting.
• n. The unmowed part of a golf course.
• n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
• n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by…
• n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
• n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming…
• n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.
• v. To create in an approximate form.
• v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
• v. To render rough; to roughen.
• v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
• adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

abrasive

• adj. Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
• adj. Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; causing irritation.
• n. A substance or material such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
• n. (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land…

aggressive

• adj. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
• adj. (programming) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

alligatored

• adj. Damaged by alligatoring.

angulate

• adj. Shaped with corners or angles.
• v. To make, or to become, angular.

approximate

• adj. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
• adj. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
• v. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
• v. To come near to; to approach.
• v. To estimate.

approximative

• adj. Of, relating to, or being an estimate or approximation.

barky

• adj. (of a tree) Having bark.
• adj. Prone to bark, to make the sound of a dog.
• adj. Sounding like the bark of a dog.

bidentate

• adj. (botany) Having tooth-like projections that are themselves dentate.
• adj. (chemistry) Of a ligand, forming two separate chemical bonds to a coordinating metal ion.

biserrate

• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having serration that are themselves serrate.

boisterous

• adj. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
• adj. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
• adj. Having or resembling animal exuberance.

bouldered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of boulder.

bouldery

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing boulders.

broken

• v. past participle of break.
• adj. Fragmented, in separate pieces.
• adj. (of a promise, etc) Breeched; violated; not kept.
• adj. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
• adj. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
• adj. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
• adj. (of land) Uneven.
• adj. (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

bullate

• adj. (medicine) Resembling a bulla or blister; inflated; blistered; bulliform.
• adj. (medicine) Of bacterial cultures, having a growth which is blistered; rising in convex prominences.

bumpy

• adj. rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
• adj. covered with or full of bumps.

cacophonic

• adj. discordant.
• adj. unmusical.

cacophonous

• adj. Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

chapped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of chap.
• adj. (of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

ciliate

• adj. (biology) Ciliated.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the eyelash.
• n. (zoology) Any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia.

ciliated

• adj. having cilia.
• adj. endowed with vibratory motion.

coarse

• adj. Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close…
• adj. Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy;.

compound

• n. an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
• n. a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
• adj. composed of elements; not simple.
• adj. (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
• n. Anything made by combining several things.
• n. (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
• n. (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by…
• n. (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed…
• v. (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
• v. (transitive) To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
• v. (transitive) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something…
• v. (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
• v. (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
• v. (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
• v. (transitive) To worsen a situation.

corded

• adj. Fitted with a cord.
• adj. (figuratively, usually of muscle or a body part) Hard, thick and firm; ropy, strong and toned.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cord.

costate

• adj. Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs.
• adj. (botany) Having one or more longitudinal ribs.

cracked

• adj. Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
• adj. Broken into coarse pieces.
• adj. (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
• adj. (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of crack.

cragged

• adj. Having crags.

craggy

• adj. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

crenate

• adj. (botany) Having round or blunt teeth on its margin; scalloped.
• n. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of crenic acid.

crenated

• adj. crenate.

crenulate

• adj. (sciences) Minutely crenate or scalloped.

crenulated

• adj. Alternative form of crenelated.

crispate

• adj. (botany) Having curled, wavy or notched edges.

crude

• adj. Being in a natural state.
• adj. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
• adj. Lacking concealing elements.
• adj. Lacking tact or taste.
• adj. (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
• adj. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
• adj. (grammar) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
• n. Any substance in its natural state.
• n. Crude oil.

crushed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crush.
• adj. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
• adj. Broken, saddened, depressed.
• adj. (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

dentate

• adj. Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.

denticulate

• adj. (botany, zoology) Finely dentate, as a leaf edge; bearing many small toothlike structures.
• adj. (architecture) Having dentils.
• n. A denticulated object.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

emarginate

• adj. (botany, mycology) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching…
• adj. (zoology, anatomy) Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
• v. (transitive) To take away the margin of.

erose

• adj. Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.

fierce

• adj. Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious or savage.
• adj. Resolute or strenuously active.
• adj. Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
• adj. (slang, Ireland, rural) Excellent, very good.
• adj. (slang, US) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
• adv. (slang, Ireland, rural) Extremely; very.

fimbriate

• adj. (botany, biology) Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.
• v. To hem; to fringe.

fringed

• adj. Possessing a fringe.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fringe.

grating

• adj. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
• adj. Abrasive; tending to annoy.
• n. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
• n. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
• n. The loose material that comes from something being grated.
• n. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also,…
• v. present participle of grate.

gravel

• n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
• n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
• n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
• v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
• v. To puzzle or annoy.
• v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
• v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
• v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

gravelly

• adj. Full of, or covered with gravel or pebbles.
• adj. (of a voice) Unpleasantly harsh or rasping.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

harsh

• adj. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
• adj. Severe or cruel.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
• v. (transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).

hilly

• adj. (of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills.

homespun

• adj. (of yarn) Spun in the home.
• adj. (of fabric) Woven in the home.
• adj. (of clothing etc) Made from homespun fabric.
• adj. (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
• n. Fabric made from homespun yarn.
• n. (obsolete) An unpolished, rustic person. Example: "What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?" - Puck,…

imbricate

• adj. Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To overlap in a regular pattern.

imbricated

• adj. Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.

inexact

• adj. Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
• adj. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
• adj. (physics, of a differential) having a path-dependent integral.

irregular

• adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
• adj. Of a surface, rough.
• adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each…
• n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
• n. One who does not regularly attend a venue.

jagged

• adj. Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
• adj. Having a rough quality.
• adj. (computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of jag.

jaggy

• adj. jagged, toothed or serrated.

jolting

• v. present participle of jolt.
• n. A movement or action that jolts.

jolty

• adj. Characterised by jolts; bumpy or jerky.

jumpy

• adj. Nervous and excited.

lacerate

• v. To tear, rip or wound.
• v. To thoroughly defeat; to thrash.
• adj. (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

lacerated

• adj. Having lacerations.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of lacerate.

laciniate

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or having a fringe.
• adj. (botany, zoology) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

lepidote

• adj. (botany) Having a coat of scurfy scales.
• n. (botany) Any plant with a coat of scurfy scales.

leprose

• adj. (biology) Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

lined

• adj. Having a lining, an inner layer or covering.
• adj. (of paper) Having lines, ruled.
• adj. (of skin) Having visible lines or wrinkles.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of line.

mountainous

• adj. Having many mountains; rough (terrain); rocky.
• adj. Resembling a mountain, especially in size.
• adj. (by extension, of a problem or task) Very difficult.

nonslippery

• adj. Not slippery.

notched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of notch.
• adj. Having notches; toothed; serrated; jagged; erose.

nubbly

• adj. Rough or lumpy.

nubby

• adj. Knobbly; covered with small knobs.
• adj. Nub-like, resembling a small bump or protrusion; stubby.

pectinate

• adj. Resembling a comb.
• adj. Having segments which are greatly lengthened to one side.
• adj. (mycology) striate.
• n. (chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

pocked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pock.
• adj. pockmarked.

pockmarked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pockmark.
• adj. having pockmarks.
• adj. pitted, or scarred with holes.

potholed

• adj. Having potholes in its surface.

prepare

• v. (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
• v. (transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
• v. (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
• v. (transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
• n. (obsolete) preparation.

pugnacious

• adj. Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

rasping

• adj. raspy.
• v. present participle of rasp.
• n. A rasping sound.

raspy

• adj. (of sound) Rough, raw, especially used to describe vocal quality.
• adj. Irritable.

ribbed

• adj. Having ribs.
• adj. (mining) intercalated with slate; said of a seam of coal.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rib.

rimose

• adj. Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.

rocky

• adj. Unstable; easily rocked.
• adj. In the style of rock and roll music.
• adj. (figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
• adj. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
• adj. Like a rock.
• adj. (figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.

roughened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of roughen.

roughish

• adj. Somewhat rough.

roughly

• adv. In a rough manner.
• adv. Unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
• adv. Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

rugged

• adj. Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
• adj. Nor neat nor regular; irregular, uneven.
• adj. Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
• adj. (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
• adj. (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
• adj. (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed.
• adj. Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
• adj. (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; rough to the ear.
• adj. (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled.
• adj. (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous.
• adj. (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy.
• adj. (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
• adj. Having a rug or rugs.
• adj. Covered with a rug.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rug.

rugose

• adj. Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
• adj. (figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
• adj. (botany) Having a rough, wrinkled surface; Parasynthetic, e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
• adj. (paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this…
• adj. (entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.

runcinate

• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having tooth-like projections pointing away from the apex.
• adj. (botany, of leaves) Having a lacerated aspect with the projection pointing away from the apex, like dandelion…

sandpapery

• adj. Resembling sandpaper.

saw-toothed

• adj. Having a jagged edge like a saw.

scabby

• adj. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
• adj. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.

scabrous

• adj. Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
• adj. (figuratively) Disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile.
• adj. (figuratively) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement, harsh, rough; unmelodious, unmusical.
• adj. (figuratively) Difficult, thorny, troublesome.
• adj. (figuratively, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.

scalloped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of scallop.
• adj. having an edge or border marked with semicircles.
• adj. cooked gratin; baked in a typical type of sauce, usually with cheese, as a casserole, e.g. scalloped potatoes;…
• adj. baked in a scallop shell.

scaly

• adj. Covered or abounding with scales.
• adj. Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
• adj. (dated, vulgar or South Africa) Mean; low.
• adj. Composed of scales lying over each other.
• n. (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, Labeobarbus natalensis.

scratchy

• adj. Characterized by scratches.
• adj. (chiefly of a sore throat) Annoying, irritating, itchy.
• adj. (informal, of an analogue radio transmission) Noisy, lossy; marred by white noise or static as a result…
• adj. (of a phonograph record) Having popping and/or crackling sounds due to excessive wear, especially from…

scurfy

• adj. covered with scurf.

seamed

• adj. Having or furnished with seams.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of seam.
• adj. (falconry, of a hawk) Out of condition; not in good condition.

serrate

• adj. Having tooth-like projections on one side, as in a saw.
• adj. (botany) (leaves) Having tooth-like projections pointed away from the petiole.
• v. To make serrate.

serrated

• adj. saw-like.
• adj. Having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of serrate.

serrulate

• adj. Minutely serrate.

shagged

• adj. (rare) Having or covered with shaggy hair.
• adj. (obsolete) Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
• adj. (obsolete) Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
• adj. Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
• adj. Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
• adj. Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shag.
• adj. (vulgar) Extremely tired.

shaggy

• adj. Rough with long or thick hair, fur or wool; unshaven, ungroomed, or unbrushed.
• adj. Rough; rugged; jaggy.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

site

• n. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
• n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
• n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
• n. The posture or position of a thing.
• n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
• n. A website.
• n. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
• n. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
• n. A part of the body which has been operated on.
• v. (architecture) To situate or place a building.

slubbed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of slub.

spinose

• adj. Having spines.

squamulose

• adj. (botany, mycology) Having small scales.

stony

• adj. As hard as stone.
• adj. Containing or made up of stones.
• adj. (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
• adj. (figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.

stormy

• adj. Of or pertaining to storms.
• adj. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy…
• adj. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
• adj. Violent; passionate; rough.

textured

• adj. Having texture, not smooth.

toothed

• adj. Having teeth.
• adj. Having projections resembling teeth.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of tooth.

tweedy

• adj. (of clothing) made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture.
• adj. (of a person) wearing tweed clothing.
• adj. (of a person) preppy.

twilled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of twill.
• adj. (of fabric) having diagonal parallel ribs.

uncut

• adj. not cut.
• adj. (of a gemstone) not cut or ground to the desired shape.
• adj. (of a book) not having the page edges trimmed.
• adj. (of a play, film etc) not edited or abridged by a censor.
• adj. (of a penis) not circumcised.

uneven

• adj. Not even.
• adj. Not level or smooth.
• adj. Not uniform.
• adj. Varying in quality.

unironed

• adj. Not ironed.

unkind

• adj. (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
• adj. Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
• adj. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

unpleasant

• adj. Not pleasant.

unpolished

• adj. Not polished; not brought to a polish.
• adj. Deprived of polish.
• adj. Not refined in manners; uncivilized; rude; plain.

unrefined

• adj. crude, raw or unprocessed.
• adj. (of a person) lacking refinement; uncouth.

unsheared

• adj. Not sheared.

unskilled

• adj. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
• adj. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
• adj. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

unsmooth

• adj. Not smooth; rough.
• v. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.

verrucose

• adj. Covered in warts; warty.

wartlike

• adj. Resembling a wart or some aspect of one.

warty

• adj. Having warts.
• adj. Similar to a wart.

wrinkled

• adj. (of a surface) Uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wrinkle.