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rough - 20 thesaurus results
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: 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
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
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
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
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