Crossword-Solution: ROUGH 5 letters, 237 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Rough	n.	Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
Rough	n.	Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.
Rough	n.	Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
Rough	n.	Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
Rough	n.	Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
Rough	n.	Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Rough	n.	Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
Rough	n.	Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
Rough	n.	Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
Rough	n.	Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
Rough	n.	Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
Rough	n.	Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
Rough	n.	Produced offhand.
Rough	n.	Boisterous weather.
Rough	n.	A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
Rough	adv.	In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Rough	v. t.	To render rough; to roughen.
Rough	v. t.	To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
Rough	v. t.	To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

We have 237 clues for the answer “ROUGH”

Clue	Answers
Bumpy, as a road	1 answer
Characterized by violence	1 answer
Crude collar discussed (5)	1 answer
Destination of many a sliced drive	1 answer
Duffer's milieu	1 answer
Errant drive's destination	1 answer
Fairway adjoiner	1 answer
Fairway border	1 answer
Fairway boundary	1 answer
Fairway flanker	1 answer
Fairway neighbor	1 answer
Golfer's "tall stuff"	1 answer
Golfer's milieu at times	1 answer
Hardly like a walk in the park	1 answer
Homonym for ruff	1 answer
Imprecise, as an estimate	1 answer
In draft form	1 answer
It might make a bad lie	1 answer
KNAGGY	1 answer
Like Sandpaper coating	1 answer
Like Teddy's Riders	1 answer
Like a draft in need of editing	1 answer
Like chapped hands	1 answer
Like life on the street	1 answer
Like rocky roads	1 answer
Like some sketches	1 answer
Place for a niblick	1 answer
Ready partner	1 answer
Sandpapery	1 answer
Still in draft form	1 answer
Tiger Woods tries to stay out of it	1 answer
Turbulent, as seas	1 answer
Uneven, irregular	1 answer
Where a slice might go	1 answer
Where a slice or a hook may land	1 answer
Not smooth or gentle	1 answer
Tough or harsh in manner	1 answer
rocky; harsh	1 answer
Unpolished or uneven in texture	1 answer
Like stormy seas	2 answers
Uneven, as a road	2 answers
Like some sandpaper	2 answers
Like stubble	2 answers
Sandpaperlike	2 answers
PURE sound (ant.)	2 answers
In need of sanding	2 answers
hackly	2 answers
Not at all smooth	2 answers
Like a first draft	2 answers
Like many drafts	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

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greedy person

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Sentences with ROUGH (5)

And upon coming to the north, I expected to meet with a rough, hard-handed, and uncultivated population, living in the most Spartan-like simplicity, knowing nothing of the ease, luxury, pomp, and grandeur of southern slaveholders.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

The children were all in school, and there was nobody abroad in the streets but a few rough-looking countrymen in coarse overcoats, with their long caps pulled down to their noses.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Syria's move toward supporting the Lebanese Muslims and the Palestinians and Israel's growing support for Lebanese Christians brought the two sides into rough equilibrium, but no progress was made toward national reconciliation or political reforms--the original cause of the war.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

The narrow opening left, which was immediately over the brow of the pit, was protected by a rough railing.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

But as we all pass through in our lives the various stages of ancestral culture, there comes a time when these rough sketches of life have their appeal to us as they had for our forefathers.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Quotes with ROUGH (3)

We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when i…

Paulo Coelho

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

Lovely Goyal I Love the Way You Love Me

Enough! we're tired, my heart and I.We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 79 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).