[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rough \rough\, n.
   1. boisterous weather. obs. --fletcher.
      1913 webster

   2. a rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
      1913 webster

   in the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition;
      unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.
      1913 webster

            contemplating the people in the rough. --mrs.
                                                  browning.
      1913 webster
see also:
in the rough 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rough \rough\, adv.
   in a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
   1913 webster

         sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in
         their boats.                             --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rough \rough\, a. compar. rougher; superl. roughest. oe.
   rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, as. r?h; akin to lg. rug, d. rug,
   d. ruig, ruw, ohg. r?h, g. rauh, rauch; cf. lith. raukas
   wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. root 18. cf. rug, n.
   1. having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the
      surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough
      stone; rough cloth. specifically:
      a not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of
          a piece of land, or of a road. "rough, uneven ways."
          --shak.
          1913 webster
      b not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough
          diamond.
      c tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or
          other piece of water.
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                more unequal than the roughest sea. --t. burnet.
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      d marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; --
          said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough
          coat. "a visage rough." --dryden. "roughsatyrs."
          --milton.
          1913 webster

   2. hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or
      polish. specifically:
      a not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a
          rough temper.
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                a fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --shak.
          1913 webster

                a surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.
                                                  --prior.
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      b marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough
          measures or actions.
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                on the rough edge of battle.      --milton.
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                a quicker and rougher remedy.     --clarendon.
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                kind words prevent a good deal of that
                perverseness which rough and imperious usage
                often produces.                   --locke.
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      c loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating;
          -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough
          tone; rough numbers. --pope.
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      d austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
      e tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a
          rough day.
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                he stayeth his rough wind.        --isa. xxvii.
                                                  8.
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                time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
                                                  --shak.
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      f hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish;
          incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
          1913 webster

   rough diamond, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a
      person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior.

   rough and ready.
      a acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. "the
          rough and ready understanding." --lowell.
          1913 webster
      b produced offhand. "some rough and ready theory."
          --tylor.
          1913 webster
see also:
rougher roughest rug rough diamond rough and ready 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rough \rough\, v. t.
   1. to render rough; to roughen.
      1913 webster

   2. to break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
      --crabb.
      1913 webster

   3. to cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as,
      to rough out a carving, a sketch.
      1913 webster

   roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a
      bloom of iron to bars.

   to rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live
      without ordinary comforts.
      1913 webster
see also:
roughing rolls to rough it 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rough
     adj 1: having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough
            bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin";
            "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth
            writing" syn: unsmooth ant: smooth
     2: of persons or behavior lacking refinement or finesse; "she
        was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
     3: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10
        o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" syn: approximate,
         approximative
     4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
        "they were having a rough time" syn: rocky
     5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
        waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- ezra
        pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" syn: boisterous, fierce
     6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
        syn: grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy
     7: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious
        spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an
        exhilarating disturbance"- herman melville; "they were
        rough and determined fighting men" syn: pugnacious
     8: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or
        fringed or scalloped ant: smooth
     9: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond";
        "rough gemstones" syn: uncut ant: cut
     10: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
         splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
         "rough carpentry" syn: crude
     11: not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
     12: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand
         and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
         syn: harsh
     n : the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the
         grass is not cut short
     adv 1: with roughness or violence `rough' is an informal variant
            for `roughly'; "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they
            treated him rough" syn: roughly
     2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
        syn: roughly
     v : prepare in preliminary or sketchy form syn: rough in, rough
         out
see also:
unsmooth smooth approximate approximative rocky boisterous 
fierce grating gravel gravelly rasping 
raspy pugnacious uncut cut crude 
harsh roughly rough in rough out 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

587 moby thesaurus words for "rough":
   babbitt, herculean, philistine, spartan, abrupt, abstruse, abuse,
   acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute,
   aggressive, agitated, amaroidal, approximate, arduous, arrested,
   arriviste, asperous, assault, astringent, attack, austere,
   backward, bad, batter, battler, bearish, beastly, beat up, belabor,
   belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, biting, bitter,
   bitter as gall, blade, block out, blueprint, bluff, blunt,
   blustering, blustery, boisterous, boor, boss, bouncy, bounder,
   bourgeois, brash, brassy, bravo, brawler, brazen, brief, broken,
   broken ground, broken water, brokenly, brouillon, bruise, brusque,
   brutal, brutally, brutishly, bucko, buffet, bully, bullyboy, bumpy,
   cacophonous, cad, capricious, careening, cartoon, catchy, caustic,
   cavalier, changeable, changing, chart, choked, chop, choppily,
   choppy, churl, churlish, clown, coarse, coarse-grained, coarsen,
   combatant, competitor, complex, contender, contestant, copy,
   corduroy, corduroy road, corrugated, corrugation, cracked, cragged,
   craggy, crass, critical, croaking, croaky, cross-grained, crude,
   cruel, crusty, cursory, curt, cutthroat, cutting, delicate,
   delineation, demanding, design, desperado, desultory, deviating,
   deviative, deviatory, devil, diagram, different, difficile,
   difficult, dirty, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant,
   discourteous, disorderly, disputant, disrespectful, divaricate,
   divergent, diversified, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to,
   double-edged, dour, draft, drastic, drawing, dry, duelist, earthy,
   ebauche, eccentric, edged, elevation, embryonic, enforcer, epicier,
   erose, erratic, escharotic, esquisse, exacting, excessive,
   exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fencer, feuder, fierce, fighter,
   fighting cock, figure, firm, fitful, flickering, fluctuating,
   foggy, foilsman, formidable, formless, furious, gamecock, gaudy,
   general, gladiator, gnarl, goon, goose bumps, goose pimples,
   gooseflesh, gorilla, grained, grainy, granular, granulate,
   granulated, graph, grating, great, grim, gritty, gross,
   ground plan, groundling, gruff, gunman, guttering, guttersnipe,
   guttural, hairy, halting, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh,
   harsh-sounding, harum-scarum, hasty, hatchet man, hazy, heavy,
   hell-raiser, hellcat, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hoarse, homespun,
   hood, hooligan, horripilant, horripilate, horripilation,
   house plan, husky, ichnography, ill-bred, ill-bred fellow,
   ill-mannered, ill-treat, ill-use, immethodical, immoderate,
   imperfect, impolite, improper, impulsive, in embryo, in ovo,
   in the rough, incisive, inclement, incomplete, inconsiderate,
   inconsistent, inconstant, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, inequal,
   inexact, inharmonious, injure, intemperate, intense, intermittent,
   intermitting, intricate, ironbound, irregular, irregularly,
   irritating, jagged, jaggedly, jarring, jawbreaking, jerky,
   jogglety, joggling, joggly, jolting, jolty, jouster, keen, killer,
   knight, knob, knock about, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout,
   knotted, knotty, laborious, lambaste, lay on, linsey-woolsey,
   looby, lop, loud, lout, loutish, low fellow, lumpy, lurching,
   mad dog, malodorous, maltreat, manhandle, mark out, maul, mean,
   mercurial, meretricious, metallic, militant, mishandle, mistreat,
   mock-up, molest, mordacious, mordant, motley, mucker, mug, mutable,
   no picnic, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nose-tickling,
   not easy, nouveau riche, obscene, operose, outline, outrage,
   outrageous, oversimple, parvenu, patchy, pattern, peasant,
   penetrating, piercing, pimple, pimply, piquant, pitted, plot,
   plug-ugly, pluralistic, pocky, poignant, pommel, pornographic,
   potholed, profile, projection, proximate, pummel, pungent, punk,
   quarreler, quick, ragged, raggedly, raging, rambling, rambunctious,
   rampageous, rank, rasping, raucid, raucous, raw, reductionistic,
   reductive, ribald, ridiculous, rigorous, rioter, ripple, ripply,
   rival, roiled, roisterous, rollicking, rotten, rough draft,
   rough up, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, rough-cast,
   rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughen, roughhewn, roughly,
   roughneck, roupy, rowdy, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffian,
   ruffled, rugged, rutted, rutty, sabreur, sandpaper, savage,
   savagely, scabrous, scathing, scraggy, scrapper, scrappy, scuffler,
   set with thorns, severe, shagged, shaggy, shapeless, sharp, short,
   simplistic, skeleton, sketch, sketchy, smutty, snatchy, snippy,
   solid, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spiny,
   splitting, sporadic, spotty, squabbler, squawking, squawky,
   stabbing, staggering, steep, stern, stertorous, stinging, stormy,
   strangled, strenuous, strident, stridulous, stringent, strong arm,
   strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, stud, stunted, surly,
   swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, table, tart,
   tempestuous, textured, thick, thorny, thrash, throaty, thug,
   ticklish, tilter, tinny, toilsome, tough, trace, trenchant,
   tricksy, tricky, truculent, trying, turbulent, tussler, unbecoming,
   unblown, uncertain, uncivil, uncivilized, uncompleted,
   unconscionable, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
   undecorous, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undressed, unequable,
   unequal, uneven, unevenly, unfair, unfashioned, unfeeling,
   unfinished, unformed, unfortunate, ungentle, ungentlemanly,
   ungodly, ungracious, unhewn, unjust, unkempt, unlabored,
   unladylike, unlevel, unlicked, unlucky, unmethodical, unmetrical,
   unmusical, unorthodox, unpleasant, unpolished, unprocessed,
   unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical, unseemly, unsettled, unshaped,
   unsmooth, unsparing, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untreated,
   ununiform, unworked, unwrought, uphill, upstart, vague, variable,
   variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vehement,
   venomous, violent, violently, virulent, vitriolic, vulgar,
   vulgarian, vulgarist, wallop, wandering, washboard, wavering,
   wicked, wild, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly, working drawing, wrangler,
   yahoo, yokel

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