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Antonyms for roughest

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ruhf
Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒf

Definition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for roughest

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