单词 | rough |
释义 | rough (once / 80 pages) 1adjadv 2adjadv 3adjnv 4adj 5adj Rough means harsh and uneven. If you want to go driving in the rough terrain of rocky dirt roads, you'll need four-wheel drive and a stomach for bouncing. Rough means coarse or bumpy, and can be used in many different ways. A few days after you shave, your skin will be rough with stubble. Rough seas are choppy and turbulent, and might make you seasick. On a rough day, lots of things go wrong. A rough person (who could be called "a rough") tends to get into fights. Someone raised on a farm in the mountains could be described as having a rough and rugged life. WORD FAMILYrough: roughed, rougher, roughest, roughing, roughish, roughly, roughness, roughs+/roughness: roughnesses USAGE EXAMPLESMcGloin underwent an MRI on Monday after being roughed in the second quarter by Jared Crick. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) St. Thomas’s first regular-season game was against Booker T. Washington, a public high school in a rough neighborhood of Miami. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “His record is very mixed, particularly on protection. His tenure was a rough time for the protection of refugees,” a former senior UN official said. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj having or caused by an irregular surface trees with rough bark rough ground rough skin rough blankets Syn|Ant unsmooth uneven not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture unironed, wrinkled(of linens or clothes) not ironed unpolishednot carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing irregularcontrary to rule or accepted order or general practice coarse, harshof textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles nonslipperynot slippery; not likely to slip or skid abrasive, scratchycausing abrasion alligatored, crackedof paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide barkyresembling the rough bark of a tree broken, ruggedtopographically very uneven bullateof leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered bumpycovered with or full of bumps chapped, cracked, roughenedused of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure corded, twilledof textiles; having parallel raised lines costate, ribbed(of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainoushaving hills and crags crushedtreated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedyof textiles; having a rough surface imbricate, imbricatedused especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfyrough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf squamulosecovered with tiny scales lined, seamed(used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams pocked, pockmarked, potholedused of paved surfaces having holes or pits rock-ribbed, rockboundabounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps bouldered, bouldery, rocky, stonyabounding in rocks or stones gravelly, pebbly, shinglyabounding in small stones roughishsomewhat rough rugoseof leaves; ridged or wrinkled sandpaperyhaving the abrasive texture of sandpaper saw-likehaving rough edges that can be used for sawing scabbycovered with scabs shagged, shaggyhaving a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags coarse-textured, rough-textured, texturedhaving surface roughness verrucose, wartlike, warty(of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts smooth having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities evenbeing level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) ironed(of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron fineof textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles slippery, slippycausing or tending to cause things to slip or slide creaseless, uncreasedused especially of fabrics even-texturedhaving an even texture fast(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds fine-textured, smooth-texturedhaving a smooth, fine-grained structure glassyresembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness seamless, unlined, unseamedsmooth, especially of skin aerodynamic, flowing, sleek, streamlineddesigned or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow velvet, velvet-textured, velvetysmooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste 2adj of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped Syn|Ant simple, unsubdivided (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions compoundcomposed of more than one part bidentatehaving toothlike projections that are themselves toothed biserratehaving saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched ciliate, ciliatedhaving a margin or fringe of hairlike projections crenate, crenated, scallopedhaving a margin with rounded scallops crenulate, crenulatedhaving a margin with small rounded teeth crispatewavy or notched and curled very irregularly dentatehaving toothlike projections in the margin denticulatehaving a very finely toothed margin emarginatehaving a notched tip erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothedhaving an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed fimbriatehaving a fringe of slender processes fringed, laciniatehaving edges irregularly and finely slashed lacerate, laceratedirregularly slashed and jagged as if torn pectinatelike a comb rimosehaving a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices runcinatehaving incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves notched, saw-toothed, serrate, serrated, toothednotched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex serrulateminutely serrated spinosehaving spines smooth of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth simple, unsubdivided(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions compoundcomposed of more than one part entire(of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes repandhaving a slightly undulating margin sinuatehaving a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex undulatehaving a wavy margin and rippled surface unnotched, untoothedhaving no notches 3adj violently agitated and turbulent rough weather rough seas Syn boisterous, fierce stormy (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion 4adj causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements a rough ride Syn|Ant bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky smooth of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence 5adv with rough motion as over a rough surface 2ride rough Syn roughly 1adj (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse she was a diamond in the rough rough manners Syn unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth 2adj unkind or cruel or uncivil a rough answer Syn harsh unkind lacking kindness 3adj ready and able to resort to force or violence they were rough and determined fighting men Syn pugnacious aggressive having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends 4adv with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') 3they treated him rough Syn roughly 1adj not shaped by cutting or trimming rough gemstones Syn|Ant uncut unsheared (used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared cut fashioned or shaped by cutting cut outhaving been cut out hand-hewn, hewncut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel sheared(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length slashedhaving long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric 2adj not carefully or expertly made rough carpentry Syn crude unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency 3adj not perfected a rough draft a few rough sketches Syn unpolished not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing 4adj not quite exact or correct a rough guess Syn approximate, approximative inexact not exact 5n the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short Hyper land site, site the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) 6v prepare in preliminary or sketchy form 4Syn|Hyper rough in, rough out prepare to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery 1adj full of hardship or trials they were having a rough time Syn rocky difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure 2adj unpleasantly stern 5the nomad life is rough and hazardous Syn harsh unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings adj unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound Syn grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound |
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