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rough

Definition for rough

adjective as in stormy; not quiet

adjective as in basic, incomplete

adjective as in approximate

Strongest matches

foggy, hazy, sketchy, uncertain

Strong matches

estimated, general

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Example Sentences

It started out rough, with several calls being dropped before everyone realized that even phone directions for public comment needed to be translated before people start providing public comments.

It’s been a rough road so far, but if there is one brightening light at the end of the tunnel, it’s that vaccinations are continuing to push forward.

While the fidelity and speed of the system are still a long way from those achieved by state-of-the-art devices, a lot of this is down to the rough and ready experimental setup the researchers used and should be possible to improve on.

Planes couldn’t fly that morning because of weather, and the water was rough.

McIlroy did not call an official after checking on his ball in the rough Saturday at the 18th hole.

Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.

CEO Michael Lynton showed a rough cut of the movie to U.S. officials before moving ahead.

Hitchcock loved to tell stories, elaborate, complicated rough drafts for movies he would never make.

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.

He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

England proclaimed a rough indignation at the demand for Gibraltar, which Austria had made in behalf of Spain.

The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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