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say it: ruhf
rough is an adjective, adverb, noun and verb meaning "having or caused by an irregular surface". It carries 18 recorded senses.
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
βshe was a diamond in the roughβ
βrough mannersβ
not quite exact or correct
βthe approximate time was 10 o'clockβ
βa rough guessβ
βa ballpark estimateβ
violently agitated and turbulent
βboisterous winds and wavesβ
βthe fierce thunders roar me their musicβ
βrough weatherβ
βrough seasβ
ready and able to resort to force or violence
βpugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbanceβ
βthey were rough and determined fighting menβ
unpleasantly stern
βwild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactusβ
βthe nomad life is rough and hazardousβ
with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
βhe was pushed roughly asideβ
βthey treated him roughβ
colloquialism
the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Forms marked Β· are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not β but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rough come from Princeton Universityβs WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.