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rough
     adj 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" [syn: {unsmooth}] [ant: {smooth}]
     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" [syn: {approximate},
         {approximative}]
     4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
        "they were having a rough time" [syn: {rocky}]
     5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
        waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
        Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous}, {fierce}]
     6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
        [syn: {grating}, {gravel}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}]
     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" [syn: {pugnacious}]
     8: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or
        fringed or scalloped [ant: {smooth}]
     9: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond";
        "rough gemstones" [syn: {uncut}] [ant: {cut}]
     10: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
         splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
         "rough carpentry" [syn: {crude}]
     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"
         [syn: {harsh}]
     n : the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the
         grass is not cut short
     adv 1: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant
            for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they
            treated him rough" [syn: {roughly}]
     2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
        [syn: {roughly}]
     v : prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn: {rough in}, {rough
         out}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0


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