ROUGH

Definition of ROUGH

  1. (adj)(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
  2. (adj)not quite exact or correct
  3. (adj)full of hardship or trials
  4. (adj)violently agitated and turbulent
  5. (adj)unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  6. (adj)ready and able to resort to force or violence
  7. (adj)not carefully or expertly made
  8. (adj)not perfected
  9. (adj)unpleasantly stern
  10. (adj)unkind or cruel or uncivil
  11. (adj)having or caused by an irregular surface
  12. (adj)of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
  13. (adj)causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
  14. (adj)not shaped by cutting or trimming
  15. (verb)prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
  16. (adv)with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
  17. (adv)with rough motion as over a rough surface
  18. (noun)the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short