Rougher

Synonyms for "rougher" (22 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Adjective(3 words)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (11)

Adverb(1 words)
more bare rock
Noun(1 words)
more friction-causing

Related word relations

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More general

3 entries
behavioral attributeprecisionsurface quality

More specific

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Collocations

6 entries
rougher cutrougher estimaterougher handlingrougher surfacerougher terrainrougher texture

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The skin of a shark is much rougher than that of a tuna fish.

Source: tatoeba (54018)

The symposium was a little rougher than usual: "Never again," said Socrates the morning after.

Source: tatoeba (3452086)

"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."

Source: tatoeba (7142396)

The Central Power is not ignorant of the ramifications of their acts, not after we've made point-blank statements, but they continue to get rougher and bolder, just as though they had the world in the palm of their hands.

Source: tatoeba (11668906)

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