rough : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rough	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for rough
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rough adv with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" Synonym(s): roughly, rough with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" Synonym(s): roughly, rough adj having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" Synonym(s): rough, unsmooth Antonym(s): smooth (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" Synonym(s): approximate, approximative, rough full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" Synonym(s): rocky, rough violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" Synonym(s): boisterous, fierce, rough unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" Synonym(s): grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy 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" Synonym(s): pugnacious, rough of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped Antonym(s): smooth causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" Synonym(s): rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy Antonym(s): smooth not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" Synonym(s): uncut, rough Antonym(s): cut not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" Synonym(s): crude, rough not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" Synonym(s): harsh, rough unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" Synonym(s): harsh, rough n the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short v prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn: rough in, rough, rough out]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rough \Rough\, a. [Compar. {Rougher}; superl. {Roughest}.] [OE. rou[?], rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r[?]h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r[?]h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf. {Rug}, n.] 1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically: (a) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. [bd]Rough, uneven ways.[b8] --Shak. (b) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond. (c) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet. (d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. [bd]A visage rough.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Roughsatyrs.[b8] --Milton. 2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically: (a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. --Prior. (b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions. On the rough edge of battle. --Milton. A quicker and rougher remedy. --Clarendon. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. --Locke. (c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers. --Pope. (d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine. (e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day. He stayeth his rough wind. --Isa. xxvii. 8. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. --Shak. (f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught. {Rough diamond}, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rough \Rough\, adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly. Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rough \Rough\, v. t. 1. To render rough; to roughen. 2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. {Roughing rolls}, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars. {To rough it}, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rough \Rough\, n. 1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher. 2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. {In the rough}, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs. Browning.