English > rough: 18 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Having or caused by an irregular surface. |
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Examples | - "trees with rough bark"
- "rough ground"
- "rough skin"
- "rough blankets"
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Synonym | unsmooth |
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Narrower | abrasive, scratchy | Causing abrasion |
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alligatored, cracked | Of paint or varnish |
barky | resembling the rough bark of a tree |
broken, rugged | topographically very uneven |
bullate | Of leaves |
bumpy | Covered with or full of bumps |
chapped, cracked, roughened | Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure |
corded, twilled | Of textiles |
costate, ribbed | (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture |
cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous | Having hills and crags |
crushed | treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance |
gravelly, pebbly, shingly | Abounding in small stones |
homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy | Of textiles |
imbricate, imbricated | Used especially of leaves or bracts |
lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy | rough to the touch |
lined, seamed | (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams |
pocked, pockmarked, potholed | Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits |
rock-ribbed, rockbound | Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps |
rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony | abounding in rocks or stones / stones |
roughish | Somewhat rough |
rugose | Of leaves |
sandpapery | Having the abrasive texture of sandpaper |
saw-like | Having rough edges that can be used for sawing |
scabby | Covered with scabs |
shagged, shaggy | Having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags |
squamulose | Covered with tiny scales |
textured, rough-textured, coarse-textured | Having surface roughness |
verrucose, warty, wartlike | (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts |
See also | coarse, harsh | Of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles |
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irregular | contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice |
nonslippery | not slippery |
uneven | not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture |
unfinished | not brought to the desired final / final state |
unironed, wrinkled | (of linens or clothes) not ironed |
unpolished | not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing |
Opposite | smooth | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities |
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Spanish | áspero |
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Catalan | aspre |
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Nouns | roughness | a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven |
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Adverbs | roughly | with rough motion as over a rough surface |
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English > rough: 18 senses > adjective 8Meaning | Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped. |
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Category | botany, phytology | The branch of biology that studies plants |
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Narrower | bidentate | Having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed |
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biserrate | Having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched |
ciliate, ciliated | Having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections |
crenate, crenated, scalloped | Having a margin with rounded scallops |
crenulate, crenulated | Having a margin with small rounded teeth |
crispate | wavy or notched and curled very irregularly |
dentate | Having toothlike projections in the margin |
denticulate | Having a very finely toothed margin |
emarginate | Having a notched tip |
erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed | Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed |
fimbriate | Having a fringe of slender processes |
fringed, laciniate | Having edges irregularly and finely slashed |
lacerate, lacerated | irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn |
pectinate | like a comb |
rimose | Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices |
runcinate | Having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base |
serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched | notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex |
serrulate | minutely serrated |
spinose | Having spines |
See also | compound | Composed of more than one part |
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simple, unsubdivided | (botany) of leaf shapes |
Opposite | smooth | Of the margin of a leaf shape |
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Spanish | dentado, denticulado |
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Catalan | dentat, denticulat |
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Nouns | roughness | a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven |
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