roughcast

1. 1.

   a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls

   Broaderplaster
2. 2.

   a rough preliminary model

   Broadermodel

Other forms of roughcast

plural

roughcasts·

past tense

roughcasted·

present participle

roughcasting·

Forms marked · 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 — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roughcast

What does roughcast mean?

roughcast means "shape roughly". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roughcast?

roughcast has 2 syllables and divides as rough-cast 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.

What is another word for roughcast?

Close synonyms include rough-hew. 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 roughcast a common word?

roughcast 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.