| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unevenness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, asymmetry, break, bump, bumpiness, change, dent, deviation, distortion, flaw, hole, hump, imperfection, inconsistency, jaggedness, roughness, shift, spasm, stop, twist, uncertainty, variability, variation |
| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being rough on the surface |
Synonyms: |
beardedness, break, bristling, brokenness, bumpiness, bushiness, coarseness, crack, crinkledness, hairiness, jaggedness, nick, ragged edge, raggedness, scratch, shagginess, unevenness, woolliness, wrinkledness |
Antonyms: |
evenness, regularity, smoothness |
| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, asperity, bumpiness, crudity, gruffness, irregularity, unevenness, wooliness |
| Main Entry: | jaggedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irregularity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, asymmetry, break, bump, bumpiness, change, crookedness, dent, deviation, distortion, flaw, hole, hump, imperfection, inconsistency, inequality, roughness, shift, spasm, stop, twist, uncertainty, unevenness, variability, variation |
| Main Entry: | unevenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irregularity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, asymmetry, break*, bump*, bumpiness, change, crookedness, dent, deviation, distortion, flaw, hole, hump, imperfection, inconsistency, inequality, jaggedness, roughness, shift, spasm, stop, twist, uncertainty, variability, variation |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
anarchical, anomalous, by planets, capricious, chaotic, complex, complexed, complicated, confused, deranged, desultory, disjointed, dislocated, disorderly, entangled, fitful, flickering, heteroclite, immethodical, indiscriminate, inextricable, intricate, involved, irreducible, irregular, knotted, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of order, out of place, out of sorts, perplexed, promiscuous, rambling, raveled, rhapsodical, riotous, shapeless, slovenly, spasmodic, straggling, tangled, topsy, unarranged, uncertain, unmethodical, unpunctual, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy
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| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun, noun1, noun2 |
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asperous, bearded, befringed, bullate, bushy, calcified, callused, chaetigerous, ciliated, coriaceous, cragged, craggy, crankling, crinite, crinose, crisp, dumose, echinate, feathery, filamentous, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gnarled, hairy, hirsute, hispid, horripilating, irrefrangible, kerasine, knotted, laciniate, lanate, lanuginose, lanuginous, leafy, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, lined, ondoyant, pachydermatous, pappous, pilous, plumigerous, plumose, prickly, rough, rough as a bear, rough as a nutmeg, rugate, rugged, rugose, rugous, salebrous, scabrous, scored, scraggly, scraggy, scrobiculate, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shrunk, sotadic, suberose, tomentous, tufted, uneven, unpolished, unsmooth, unsnod, vermiculated, verrucose, villous, weathered, well, woolly, wrinkled
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| Concept: | Roughness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
roughness; tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity., brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock., plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee., wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff., knot (convolution).
-verbs
be rough; go against the grain., render rough; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
-adjectives
rough, uneven, scabrous, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly (sharp [more]; arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear., downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous, lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy.
-adverbs
against the grain.
-phrases
cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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Antonyms: |
smoothness |
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