Synonyms for rough

adjective

• unpleasantly stern
• violently agitated and turbulent
• ready and able to resort to force or violence
• not shaped by cutting or trimming
• not carefully or expertly made
• unkind or cruel or uncivil
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
• full of hardship or trials
• having or caused by an irregular surface
• not quite exact or correct
• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
• not perfected
• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

adverb

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
• with rough motion as over a rough surface

verb

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

noun

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