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| NOUN | 1 | roughness, raggedness | A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven |
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| 2 | roughness, harshness | The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses | |
| 3 | roughness, crudeness | An unpolished unrefined quality | |
| 4 | roughness, choppiness, rough water | Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | |
| 5 | roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness | Rowdy behavior | |
| 6 | roughness, pitting, indentation | The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | |
| 7 | roughness | Harsh or severe speech or behavior |
| Sounds | rah'fnahs |
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| Rhymes | abacus, abruptness, absoluteness, and 1127 more rhymes in ahs... |
| Meaning | A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven. |
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| Synonyms | raggedness |
| Contrary | smoothness |
| Broader | texture |
| Narrower | scaliness; coarseness, nubbiness, tweediness; slub, knot, burl; harshness, abrasiveness, scratchiness; coarseness, graininess, granularity; shagginess; bumpiness; prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness |
| Adjectives | rough; rough |
| Meaning | The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses. |
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| Synonyms | harshness |
| Broader | unpleasantness |
| Narrower | gruffness, hoarseness, huskiness |
| Adjectives | rough; rough |
| Meaning | An unpolished unrefined quality. |
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| Synonyms | crudeness |
| Broader | inelegance |
| Adjectives | rough; rough; rough; rough |
| Meaning | Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather. |
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| Synonyms | choppiness, rough water |
| Broader | storminess |
| Adjectives | rough; rough |
| Meaning | Rowdy behavior. |
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| Synonyms | rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness |
| Broader | disorder |
| Adjectives | rough; rough; rough; rough |
| Meaning | The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion. |
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| Synonyms | pitting, indentation |
| Broader | corrosion, corroding, erosion |
| Meaning | Harsh or severe speech or behavior. |
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| Examples | "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet" |
| Broader | intensification |
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