Word Finder - rough

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The unmowed part of a golf course.

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A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

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A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

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The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

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A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.

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Boisterous weather.

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A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.

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To create in an approximate form.

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Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

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To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.

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To render rough; to roughen.

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To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

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To endure primitive conditions.

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To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.

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Not smooth; uneven.

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Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

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a rough estimate; a rough sketch of a building; a rough plan

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Turbulent.

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rough sea

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Difficult; trying.

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Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.

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Crude; unrefined

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His manners are a bit rough, but he means well.

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Violent; not careful or subtle

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This box has been through some rough handling.

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Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.

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a rough tone; a rough voice

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Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.

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a rough diamond

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Harsh-tasting.

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rough wine

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Somewhat ill; sick

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Unwell due to alcohol; hungover

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In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

I don't like it when you're rough like that.

For many days he wandered through rough and dangerous places.

He had a rough night anyway.

She's in a rough spot.

She had a rough day yesterday.

He was not rough, though he wasn't gentle, either.

Jackson's had a rough night and I want to make sure he's ok.

The thought of her in rough conditions or battle met instant instinctual resistance.

Jackson patted him on the back, "Rough night, eh mate?"

Looks like you had a rough night, too.

A sort of inclined tunnel led upward for a way, and they found the floor of it both rough and steep.

It's been a rough few days.

You can't be too rough for me.

Want me to rough her up for you?

Cassie, if things get rough, you find Bordeaux and stay with him.

Gabriel rubbed his rough jaw.

The road was rough but not limited to four-wheel drive vehicles like the mountain Jeep roads to the south.

He took her other with a rough hand and nodded in approval at the healed scars.

He's had a rough day.

Childhood excursions had taught her that the country was rough, but was she up to ten miles of walking?

All these stones were of course imported, as the Babylonian had no stone (except a rough coral rag) at hand as the Egyptian had.

They also make felts and a rough cloth of sheep's wool.

He hadn't met a woman quite as rough around the edges as his was.

I can take care of myself for the most part, and wouldn't mind rough conditions.

The hills are shown in rough hachures.

The Eskimo dog has small, upright ears, a straight bushy tail, moderately sharp muzzle and rough coat.

Its ancient importance is vouched for by its walls of rough cyclopean work, which may have had a total extent of some 2 m.

It consists of uncultivated or rough lands, such as mountains, stony ground, &c., which are useless without clearance, to which no possession is claimed, and which are at such a distance from the nearest dwelling that the human voice cannot be made to reach them from that dwelling.

The rough experience of this voyage did more than endow him with renewed health; it changed him from a dreamy, sensitive boy, hereditarily disinclined to any sort of active career, into a selfreliant, energetic man, with broad interests and keen sympathies.

It is, however, important to remember that rough as these native methods are they result in the production of rubber which commands the highest price.

The Pacific coast has several deep and well sheltered bays; but they are separated from the interior by the rough and difficult ranges of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

In addition to these are the many small domestic industries, such as the making of straw hats, mats, baskets, pottery, ropes and rough textiles.

Dana introduced the term "as" for this rough kind of lava-stream, whilst he applied the term "pahoehoe" to those flows which have a smooth surface, or are simply wrinkled and ropy; these terms being used in this sense in Hawaii, in relation to the local lavas.

Short in stature and uncouth in appearance, his individuality first shocked and then by its earnestness impressed the House of Commons; and his sturdy independence of party ties, combined with a gift of rough but genuine eloquence (of which his speech on the Royal Title Bill of 1876 was an example), rapidly made him one of the best-known public men in the country.

In steam vessels a rough and fair engine room register are kept, FIG.

In addition to this, the unfinished surface of the walls and the rough bosses left on many XXII.

The justice administered in them was patriarchal and rough, but not ineffective.

The imports of foreign metals in the rough and of coal are steadily increasing, while the exports, never otherwise than insignificant, show no advance.

The tests of the physical properties of crude rubber usually applied to determine its value in the market are also very rough and cannot be relied upon.

An earthwork known as Castle Rough, in the marshes below Milton, was probably the work of Hasten the Dane in 892, and Bayford Castle, a mile distant, occupies the site of one said to have been built in opposition by King Alfred, Tong Castle is about 2 m.

His versatility is further shown by the fact that he drew rough caricatures and other sketches with some spirit.

On the other hand, there are elements in the poem which show that it is not entirely the work of a poor crowder; and these (notably references to historical and literary authorities, and occasional reminiscences of the literary tricks of the Scots Chaucerian school) have inclined some to the view that the text, as we have it, is an edited version of the minstrel's rough song story.

In that rough age crimes of violence predominated, and the king's justiciars regularly perambulated the land in search of offenders, and decimated every village which refused to surrender fugitive criminals.

The founder of the Jacobite Church in Asia owed his surname (Burdeana) to his rough horse-cloth.

The world saw with astonishment this vicious, rough, coarse-fibred man of the world transformed into an austere penitent, who worked miracles of healing.

The affair seems to have been well planned up to a certain point, and well executed; but the Athenian van, flushed with a first success, their ranks broken and disordered by a pursuit of the enemy over rough ground, were repulsed with great loss by a body of heavy-armed Boeotians, and driven back in disorder.

In other words, a rough indication is seen of the separation of medicine and surgery.

The surrounding region, lying on the eastern slopes of one of the lateral ranges of the Serra do Espinhaco, is rough and barren, but.

These breaks in continuity show what might also be inferred from frequent repetitions of lines which have appeared earlier in the poem, and from the rough workmanship of passages in the later books, that the poem could not have received the final revision of the author.

Upon that was raised a wall of rough rubble rudely faced with stone and flint, evidently a medieval work and about 22 ft.