rough in

1. 1.

   prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

   Synonymsroughrough out

   Broaderprepare

Questions about rough in

What does rough in mean?

rough in means "prepare in preliminary or sketchy form".

What is another word for rough in?

Close synonyms include rough, rough out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rough in a common word?

rough in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.