Definitions For Rough

noun

  • The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
  • In a rough way
  • Outside and without shelter
  • An area on a golf course covered with tall grass that makes it difficult to hit the ball
  • Something (such as a drawing) that is done quickly and is not detailed or finished
  • A person who is loud and violent

verb

  • Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
  • To hit (a player) very hard in a way that is not allowed by the rules

adjective

  • Ready and able to resort to force or violence
  • Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  • Violently agitated and turbulent
  • Full of hardship or trials
  • Not quite exact or correct
  • Unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • Unpleasantly stern
  • Not perfected
  • (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
  • Not carefully or expertly made

adjective

  • Not shaped by cutting or trimming
  • Having or caused by an irregular surface
  • Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
  • Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

adverb

  • With rough motion as over a rough surface
  • With roughness or violence (rough' is an informal variant for roughly')

Is Rough a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10

The word Rough is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Rough in a Sentence

  • He trimmed the rough edge of the paper.
  • We traveled over rough dirt roads.
  • They hiked through rough terrain.
  • The engine is running a little rough.
  • Life has been treating her pretty rough.
  • He plays rough with the dog.
  • He hit his drive into the rough.
  • He showed me a few roughs of the new building.
  • He was called for roughing the kicker.

Synonyms for Rough

Antonyms for Rough

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