English > rough: 18 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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 8| Meaning | 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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