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rough in, rough out, pugnacious, grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, boisterous, fierce, uncut, rocky, approximate, approximative, harsh, crude, unsmooth, roughly Definition: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short;prepare in preliminary or sketchy form;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";unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice";violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas";not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones";full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time";not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o''clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate";unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous";not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches";(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners";not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry";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";of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped;with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough";with roughness or violence (`rough'' is an informal variant for `roughly''); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough";
See Also: coarse, irregular, nonslippery, uneven, unironed, wrinkled, unpolished, simple, unsubdivided, compound Pertainyms: unsmooth, pugnacious Part Meronyms: golf course, golf links, links
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