English > unsmooth: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or caused by an irregular surface. |
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| Example | "his unsmooth face" |
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| Synonym | rough |
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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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