rough water

1. 1.

   used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

   Synonymschoppinessroughness

   Broaderstorminess

Questions about rough water

What does rough water mean?

rough water means "used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather".

What is another word for rough water?

Close synonyms include choppiness, roughness. 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 water a common word?

rough water 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.