Definition of: rough

(ruf) adjective
1. Having an uneven surface; having small inequalities on the surface; not smooth or polished: rough stone.
2. Coarse in texture; shaggy; also, disordered or ragged; shabby: said of dress or appearance: a rough suit, a rough shock of hair.
3. Having the surface broken; uneven: a rough country.
4. Characterized by rude or violent action: rough sports.
5. Naut. Boisterous or tempestuous; stormy: a rough passage.
6. Characterized by harshness of spirit; brutal.
7. Lacking the finish and polish bestowed by art or culture; unpolished; crude.
8. Done or made hastily and without attention to details; approximate.
9. Phonet. Uttered with an aspiration; aspirated: a rough breathing.
10. Harsh to the ear; grating; inharmonious: rough sounds.
—noun
1. A low, rude, and violent fellow; a ruffian; a rowdy.
2. A crude, incomplete, or unpolished object, material, or condition.
3. Any part of a golf course on which tall grass, bushes, etc., grow.
4. A spike for insertion in a horseshoe, to prevent slipping.
—v.t.
1. To make rough; roughen.
2. To treat roughly; specifically, in football, to treat (a player) with needless and intentional violence.
3. To make, cut, or sketch roughly: with in or out: to rough in the details of a plan.
—v.i.
4. To become rough.
5. To behave roughly.
—to rough it To live under rough, hard, or impoverished conditions; also, to camp out or travel in a rough manner; rusticate.
—adverb In a rude manner; roughly. ♦ Homophone: ruff. [OE rūh]
—rough′ly adverb
—rough′ness noun Synonyms (adj.) coarse, craggy, harsh, jagged, ragged, rude, rugged, shaggy, uneven, unfinished, unhewn, unpolished. See AWKWARD, BLUFF. Antonyms: bland, even, glossy, level, plain, polished, sleek, smooth.