Antonyms for roughhewn
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : ruhf-hyoo |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌfˈhyu |
- accurate
- calm
- clean
- clement
- combine
- complete
- completed
- cooked
- courteous
- definite
- delicate
- done
- easy
- even
- exact
- experienced
- facile
- finished
- flat
- formal
- gentle
- good
- gradual
- healed
- healthy
- increase
- join
- kind
- level
- mannerly
- mend
- mild
- moderate
- moral
- nice
- planned
- pleasant
- polished
- polite
- precise
- refined
- regular
- respectful
- sew
- small
- smooth
- soft
- sophisticated
- stilted
- tasteful
- temperate
- tiny
- unite
- unnatural
- warm
- weak
- well-done
- whole
Definition of roughhewn
- As in raw : adj not cooked, prepared
- As in rough : adj basic, incomplete
- As in rude : adj crude, primitive
- As in rugged : adj bumpy, weathered
- As in unfinished : adj not completed
- As in grainy : adj coarse
- As in granular : adj coarse
- As in coarse : adj rough, unrefined
- As in unperfected : adj rough
- As in unprocessed : adj crude
- As in crude : adj unrefined, natural
- As in carve : verb cut carefully with sharp instrument
- It consisted of cabins of roughhewn logs surrounded by a stockade.
- Extract from : « Blue Ridge Country » by Jean Thomas
- In youth the land mass was roughhewn and cut deep by stream erosion.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Geology » by William Harmon Norton
- She reminded one of a roughhewn granite statue of old Egypt; and she was just as magnificently imposing.
- Extract from : « I, Thou, and the Other One » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- This arch was roughhewn on the flat surfaces and on about half of the outer curved surface, or extrados.
- Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
- Their gestures were unstudiedly graceful, and their roughhewn faces were pleasant in expression.
- Extract from : « The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop » by Hamlin Garland
- The contrast between the resolute, handsome young white man and the roughhewn Tetong was superb.
- Extract from : « The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop » by Hamlin Garland
- Nevertheless, the altar has been left there—an altar of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone.
- Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
Synonyms for roughhewn
- amateurish
- angular
- artless
- asperous
- austere
- barbarous
- bare
- basic
- block out
- bloody
- broken
- callow
- chapped
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- coarse
- coarse-grained
- craggy
- crude
- cursory
- cut short
- dabbling
- defective
- deficient
- difficult
- dilettante
- dissect
- dissever
- divide
- engrave
- etch
- fashion
- faulty
- fibrous
- form
- formless
- found wanting
- fragmentary
- fresh
- furrowed
- grainy
- granular
- grave
- green
- gritty
- hack
- half-baked
- half-done
- hard
- harsh
- hew
- hilly
- homemade
- homespun
- ignorant
- immature
- imperfect
- impure
- in the making
- in the rough
- inartistic
- incise
- incomplete
- indent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- inferior
- insculpt
- irregular
- jagged
- lacking
- leathery
- loose
- lumpy
- makeshift
- mediocre
- model
- mold
- mould
- mountainous
- native
- natural
- not done
- organic
- outline
- particulate
- pattern
- plain
- poor quality
- preliminary
- prentice
- primal
- primitive
- ragged
- raw
- rocky
- rough
- rough-and-ready
- rough-hew
- rough-hewn
- roughhewn
- roughly made
- rude
- rudimental
- rudimentary
- rugged
- rustic
- scabrous
- scraggy
- sculpt
- shape
- shapeless
- simple
- sketchy
- slash
- slice
- spartan
- stark
- stipple
- sunder
- tentative
- thick
- tool
- trim
- unaccomplished
- unadorned
- unassembled
- unbaked
- uncivilized
- uncompleted
- unconcluded
- unconversant
- uncooked
- uncultivated
- uncut
- under construction
- undercooked
- underdone
- undeveloped
- undone
- undressed
- uneven
- unexecuted
- unfashioned
- unfinished
- unformed
- unfried
- unfulfilled
- ungraded
- unhewn
- unlevel
- unmatured
- unmilled
- unpasteurized
- unperfected
- unpolished
- unprepared
- unprocessed
- unproficient
- unpurified
- unrefined
- unripe
- unsmooth
- unsorted
- unstained
- untaught
- untrained
- untreated
- unworked
- unwrought
- wanting
- weather-beaten
- whittle
- wild
- worn
- wrinkled
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