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Synonyms for roughest
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ruhf |
Phonetic Transcription : rʌf |
Top 10 synonyms for roughest Other synonyms for the word roughest
- agitated
- amorphous
- asperous
- austere
- bearded
- bearish
- bluff
- blunt
- blustering
- blustery
- boisterous
- boorish
- brambly
- brief
- bristly
- broken
- brusque
- buffeting
- bushy
- cacophonous
- chapped
- churlish
- cragged
- craggy
- crass
- cross-grained
- crude
- crusty
- cursory
- curt
- discordant
- discourteous
- disheveled
- drastic
- estimated
- extreme
- formless
- furious
- general
- grating
- gross
- gruff
- hairy
- hoarse
- husky
- ill-mannered
- imperfect
- imprecise
- improper
- inclement
- inconsiderate
- indecorous
- indelicate
- inelegant
- inexact
- inharmonious
- jagged
- jarring
- knobby
- knotty
- loud
- loutish
- mean
- nappy
- nasty
- nodular
- not smooth
- proximate
- raging
- rasping
- raucous
- raw
- ridged
- rocky
- rough-and-ready
- roughhewn
- rowdy
- rude
- rudimentary
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- severe
- shaggy
- shapeless
- sharp
- short
- sketchy
- spartan
- squally
- stony
- stridulent
- tangled
- tempestuous
- tough
- tousled
- tufted
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- unceremonious
- uncertain
- uncivil
- uncompleted
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uncut
- undressed
- unequal
- unfashioned
- unfeeling
- unfinished
- unformed
- ungracious
- unhewn
- unjust
- unlevel
- unmannerly
- unmusical
- unpleasant
- unpolished
- unprecise
- unprocessed
- unrefined
- unshaven
- unshorn
- untutored
- unwrought
- vague
- violent
- vulgar
- wild
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
Définition of roughest
Origin :- Old English ruh "rough, coarse (of cloth); hairy, shaggy; untrimmed, uncultivated," from West Germanic *rukhwaz "shaggy, hairy, rough" (cf. Middle Dutch ruuch, Dutch ruig, Old High German ruher, German rauh), from Proto-Germanic *rukhaz, from PIE *reue- "to smash, knock down, tear out, dig up" (cf. Sanskrit ruksah "rough;" Latin ruga "wrinkle," ruere "to rush, fall violently, collapse," ruina "a collapse;" Lithuanian raukas "wrinkle," rukti "to shrink").
- The original -gh- sound was guttural, as in Scottish loch. Sense of "approximate" is first recorded c.1600. Of places, "riotous, disorderly, characterized by violent action," 1863. Rough draft is from 1690s. Rough-and-ready is from 1810, originally military; rough-and-tumble (1810) is from a style of free-fighting.
- adj uneven, irregular
- adj stormy; not quiet
- adj rude, impolite
- adj basic, incomplete
- adj approximate
- The Bitter-root Range is the roughest part of the mountains.
- Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson
- I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thus ended one of the roughest yet amusing contests of the war.
- Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
- The chord had been touched that the roughest soldier ever felt!
- Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon
- Come what come may, Time and the Hour runs through the roughest day.
- Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald » by Edward FitzGerald
- The noisiest and the roughest there forgot the jests they had made at Lunardi's expense.
- Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
- The huts varied in character, though most were of the roughest description.
- Extract from : « In the Wilds of Florida » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Some of the tops are of the roughest description, made by the village carpenter.
- Extract from : « India and the Indians » by Edward F. Elwin
- Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
- Extract from : « Pearls of Thought » by Maturin M. Ballou
- He comes to the studio for an hour of the roughest kind of work we can put through.
- Extract from : « Odd Numbers » by Sewell Ford
Antonyms for roughest
- accurate
- agreeable
- calm
- certain
- clean
- clear
- complete
- courteous
- definite
- delicate
- easy
- even
- facile
- flat
- gentle
- good
- great
- kind
- lengthy
- level
- long
- merciful
- mild
- moderate
- moral
- neat
- nice
- ordered
- peaceful
- pleasant
- pleasing
- polished
- polite
- precise
- refined
- regular
- smooth
- soft
- sophisticated
- sure
- sympathetic
- temperate
- unwrinkled
- wonderful
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