roughshod

1. 1.

   (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

   Similarshod
2. 2.

   (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

   “a barbarous crime”

   “brutal beatings”

   “cruel tortures”

   “Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks”

   “a savage slap”

   “vicious kicks”

   Synonymsbarbarousbrutalcruelfellsavagevicious

   Similarinhumane
3. 3.

   unjustly domineering

   “incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies”

   “a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition”

   Synonymsheavy-handed

   Similardomineering

Other forms of roughshod

comparative

roughshodder·

superlative

roughshoddest·

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 roughshod

What does roughshod mean?

roughshod means "(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roughshod?

roughshod has 2 syllables: rough-shod. The stress falls on "rough". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌfˈʃɑd/.

What is another word for roughshod?

Close synonyms include barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage. 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 roughshod a common word?

roughshod 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.

What rhymes with roughshod?

2 words rhyme with roughshod. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.