rough-spoken

1. 1.

   rude or uncouth in speech

   Similarunrefined

Questions about rough-spoken

What does rough-spoken mean?

rough-spoken means "rude or uncouth in speech".

How many syllables are in rough-spoken?

rough-spoken has 3 syllables and divides as rough--spo-ken under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is rough-spoken a common word?

rough-spoken is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.