Definitions for rough

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

(prepare in preliminary or sketchy form)

(having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face")

((of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners")

(not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate")

(full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time")

(violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas")

(unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice")

(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")

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

(causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride")

(not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones")

(not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry")

(not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches")

(unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous")

(unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer")

(with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough")

(with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough")