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jarring, strident, raucous, rasping, unmusical, inharmonious,
gruff, husky: In acknowledgement he made a rough, growling
noise. 9 unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted, imperfect,
rudimentary, crude, rude, formless, unformed, raw,
rough-and-ready, rough-hewn, roughcast, undeveloped, unshaped,
unworked, unwrought, unprocessed, unrefined; uncut, unpolished;
shapeless, unshaped, undressed: I only saw the sculpture in its
rough state and cannot say how it looked when finished. The
stones are rough, as they were when taken from the ground. 10
general, approximate, inexact, cursory, quick, hasty, sketchy,
vague, hazy; foggy, Colloq ballpark: Can't you give me even a
rough idea of how much you want for the house? 11 unfair,
unjust, bad, tough; unlucky, unfortunate: We went through a
spell of rough luck last year. This is a rough time for
everyone. 12 See rotten, 5, above.
--n. 13 rowdy, tough, hooligan, ruffian, thug, brawler, yahoo,
Slang roughneck, Australian larrikin, US mug: Phil will get
into trouble if he continues to associate with those roughs at
the Lantern. 14 sketch, (rough) draft, mock-up, outline: Let me
see roughs of the presentation before the meeting with the
client.
--v. 15 rough out or in. sketch, draft, mock-up, outline, mark
out, trace, block out: Our escape plan was roughed out by
Captain Gallagher. 16 rough up. beat (up), thrash, attack,
batter, assault, pummel or pommel, lay on, knock about,
belabour, lambaste, Colloq wallop: Some of the boys roughed him
up a bit when they learned that he was an informer.
--adv. 17 violently, savagely, brutally, brutishly: You'd best
not mention Cassie or Henry might cut up rough.
rough-house
n. 1 boisterousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, violence, brawling,
disorderliness, disorderly conduct, ruffianism: The police were
called in to quell the rough-house that broke out at the dance.
--v. 2 brawl: If you want to rough-house, do it outside!
roughly adv. 1 approximately, around; about, nearly: The British
Museum is roughly in the same direction as Euston. It cost
roughly two weeks' wages. Roughly two years later I saw her