Rough
//ɹʌf//
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The word "rough" can be used as adjective, adjective, verb, noun, adverb, proper noun and adverb.
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Rough Common Rough Riders bit of rough cut up rough diamond in the rough dog rough have a rough time of it have it rough in rough in the rough live rough macrorough microrough nanorough nonrough oak rough bulletgall wasp overrough putt from the rough rough and ready rough and tumble rough around the edges rough bedstraw rough bent rough bentgrass rough book rough breathing rough collie rough cut rough diamond rough draw rough edges rough end of the pineapple rough endoplasmic reticulum rough fish rough hawksbeard rough horsetail rough house rough in rough it rough justice rough lemon rough music rough number rough out rough patch rough perfect rough pump rough ride rough rider rough service light rough shark rough slant rough sledding rough sleeper rough string rough stuff rough talk rough trade rough trot rough up rough up the bullpen rough vacuum rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble rough-backed litter snake rough-book rough-draw rough-dressed rough-edged rough-footed rough-footed mud turtle rough-grained rough-hew rough-hewer rough-hewn rough-hound rough-house rough-leaf false vervain rough-legged rough-legged buzzard rough-legged hawk rough-toothed dolphin rough-winged swallow roughcast roughcaster roughdrawn roughdry roughhead roughhouse roughie roughish roughleg roughly roughneck roughness roughometer roughrider roughriding roughscuff roughshod roughsome roughspun roughstock roughtail roughwing roughwork roughy ruffmans sleep rough take the rough with the smooth the rough side of one's tongue unrough
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abrasive abrasive adjective adjective approximate bounce bowler break in bully bumps cabochon careful coarse compound create crude difficult facet feel friction gem golf course hard harsh hungover ill irregular military nonslippery paper pitch primitive roughen roughened roughing rowdy rude sand sand paper sandpaper sandpaper feel sandpaper surface sandpaper texture scuffed sick simple smooth spin bowler subtle surface target textile textile feel texture textured trying turbulent uneven unironed unmowed unpolished unpredictable unrefined unwell violent
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abrasive abrasive aggressive alligatored alligatored barky barky bidentate bidentate biserrate biserrate bouldered bouldered bouldery broken broken bullate bullate bumpy bumpy cacophonic cacophonous chapped ciliate ciliated ciliated coarse coarse textured coarse-textured compound corded costate costate cracked cragged cragged craggy crenate crenated crenulate crenulated crenulated crispate crispate crushed crushed dentate dentate denticulate denticulate difficult emarginate emarginate erose fimbriate fimbriate fringed gravelly hard harsh hilly homespun imbricate imbricated imbricated inexact irregular jagged jaggy lacerate lacerated lacerated laciniate laciniate lepidote lepidote leprose lined mountainous nonslippery notched notched nubbly nubby pebbly pectinate pectinate pocked pockmarked potholed potholed ribbed rimose rimose rock-ribbed rockbound rockbound rocky rough-textured roughened roughened roughish roughish rugged rugose rugose runcinate runcinate sandpapery sandpapery saw like saw toothed saw-like saw-toothed scabby scabby scabrous scalloped scalloped scaly scratchy scurfy seamed seamed serrate serrated serrulate serrulate shagged shagged shaggy shingly shingly simple slubbed slubbed spinose spinose squamulose squamulose stony stormy textured toothed tweedy twilled twilled uneven unfinished unironed unkind unpleasant unpolished unpolished unrefined unrefined unsheared unskilled unsubdivided verrucose verrucose wartlike warty wrinkled
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