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'rough' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'rough' with 20 example sentences.


rough adjective

: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

: not quite exact or correct

: full of hardship or trials

: violently agitated and turbulent

: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

: ready and able to resort to force or violence

: not carefully or expertly made

: not perfected

: unpleasantly stern

: unkind or cruel or uncivil

: having or caused by an irregular surface

: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

: not shaped by cutting or trimming

rough verb

: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

rough noun

: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

rough adverb

: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

: with rough motion as over a rough surface


  • He ended up sleeping rough in a market town.
  • The bark of this tree is very rough.
  • I'm having a rough week.
  • Here's a rough draft of my speech.
  • You'll have a rough time.
  • The sea was rough yesterday.
  • The road to the village is very rough.
  • The surface of the object is fairly rough.
  • They were made of rough brown leather.
  • The tongue of a cat feels rough.
  • It's going to get rough.
  • I have a rough idea where it is.
  • She had a rough childhood.
  • Don't be so rough on yourself.
  • He seems rough, but at heart he's very gentle.
  • I have a rough idea what needs to be done.
  • That's a little rough.
  • The wall was made of rough stones.
  • Today's flight was a rough one.
  • He is not the rough motorcycle gang member he was before.
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