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Entry 15 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Rough

/rŭf/ · IPA /ɹʌf/
01 a. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
  1. 1.
    Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
  2. 2.
    Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
    “More unequal than the roughest sea.” — T. Burnet.
  3. 3.
    Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
  4. 4.
    Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
    “A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough.” — Shak.
    “A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.” — Prior.
  5. 5.
    Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
    “On the rough edge of battle.” — Milton.
    “A quicker and rougher remedy.” — Clarendon.
    “Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces.” — Locke.
  6. 6.
    Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
  7. 7.
    Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
    “He stayeth his rough wind.” — Isa. xxvii. 8.
    “Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” — Shak.
  8. 8.
    Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
  9. 9.
    Produced offhand.
02 n. Boisterous weather.
  1. 1.
    Boisterous weather.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
    “Contemplating the people in the rough.” — Mrs. Browning.
Phrases & compounds
In the rough — in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.
03 adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
  1. 1.
    In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
    “Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats.” — Sir W. Scott.
04 v. t. To render rough; to roughen.
  1. 1.
    To render rough; to roughen.
  2. 2.
    To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
  3. 3.
    To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
Phrases & compounds
Roughing rolls — rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars.
To rough it — to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts.