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| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneven, irregular |
| Synonyms: | bearded, bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, choppy, coarse, craggy, disheveled, fuzzy, hairy, harsh, jagged, knobby, knotty, nappy, ridged, rocky, rugged, scabrous, shaggy, sharp, stony, tangled, tousled, tufted, unequal, unfinished, woolly, wrinkled, asperous, brambly, chapped, cragged, cross-grained, nodular, not smooth, ruffled, scraggy, unlevel, unshaven, unshorn, wrinkly |
| Antonyms: | even, level, polished, regular, smooth |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy; not quiet |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustery, boisterous, cacophonous, choppy, coarse, discordant, dry, furious, grating, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, inclement, inharmonious, jarring, raging, rasping, raucous, rugged, tempestuous, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, wild, blustering, buffeting, squally, stridulent, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate, temperate |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, impolite |
| Synonyms: | bluff, blunt, boisterous, boorish, brief, brusque, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, cruel, crusty, curt, discourteous, drastic, extreme, gross*, hairy*, hard, harsh, ill-mannered, improper, inconsiderate, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, mean, nasty, raw, rowdy, severe, sharp, short, tough, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeeling, ungracious, unjust, unmannerly, unpleasant, unpolished, unrefined, violent, vulgar, bearish, untutored |
| Antonyms: | courteous, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, incomplete |
| Synonyms: | austere, crude, cursory, formless, hard, imperfect, raw, rough-and-ready, rudimentary, shapeless, sketchy, spartan, undressed, unfinished, unformed, unpolished, unrefined, roughhewn, uncompleted, uncut, unfashioned, unhewn, unprocessed, unwrought |
| Antonyms: | accurate, complete, definite, precise |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approximate |
| Synonyms: | amorphous, estimated, foggy, general, hazy, inexact, proximate, rude, sketchy, uncertain, vague, imprecise, unprecise |
| Antonyms: | accurate, complete, definite, precise |
| Main Entry: | arduous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, hard to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, burdensome, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, exhausting, fatiguing, no picnic |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, motivating |
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, merciless, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild, lowbrow, philistine |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbaric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, fierce, graceless, inhuman, primitive, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, wild, lowbrow |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, brutish, inhumane, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt |
| Synonyms: | barefaced, blunt, brief, brusque, candid, crusty, curt, direct, downright, forthright, frank, gruff, hearty, honest, laconic, no-nonsense, open, outspoken, rough, rude, short, sincere, snippy, straightforward, tactless, tart, terse, unceremonious, bearish, blustering, breviloquent, plain-spoken, short-spoken, snippety |
| Main Entry: | blustery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy |
| Synonyms: | gusty, inclement, raging, rough, tempestuous, turbulent, violent, wild, windy, gusting, howling, roaring |
| Antonyms: | calm, still |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, swinish, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
| Synonyms: | bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly, bristling, furry, rumpled |
| Antonyms: | bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | choppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wavy |
| Synonyms: | inclement, rough, uneven, violent, wild, ripply |
| Antonyms: | calm, smooth |
| Main Entry: | craggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jagged |
| Synonyms: | broken, harsh, precipitous, rocky, rough, rugged, scabrous, stony, uneven, asperous, cragged, rock-bound, scraggy, unlevel, unsmooth |
| Antonyms: | flat, smooth |
| Main Entry: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | asinine, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless, Philistine, blundering, doltish, lowbrow |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | draconian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh |
| Synonyms: | brutal, cruel, drastic, exorbitant, extreme, heavy-handed, oppressive, rough, severe, strict, very severe |
| Main Entry: | earthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, coarse, crude, down, down-to-earth*, dull, easygoing, folksy, funky*, hard-boiled*, homely, homey, indelicate, lusty, mundane, natural, pragmatic, ribald, robust, rough, simple, uninhibited, unrefined, down home, home folk, lowbred, unidealistic |
| Antonyms: | cultured, elegant, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | formless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disorganized, vague |
| Synonyms: | amorphous, baggy*, chaotic, crude, inchoate, incoherent, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, nebulous, obscure, raw, rough, rude, shapeless, unclear, undefined, unformed, unorganized, blobby, orderless |
| Antonyms: | coherent, distinct, organized, specific, formed, shaped |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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