rough; unsmooth




having or caused by an irregular surface

"trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

Antonym:
  • smooth

Nearest:
  • abrasive; scratchy
  • alligatored; cracked
  • barky
  • broken; rugged
  • bullate
  • bumpy
  • chapped; cracked; roughened
  • corded; twilled
  • costate; ribbed
  • cragged; craggy; hilly; mountainous
  • crushed
  • homespun; nubby; nubbly; slubbed; tweedy
  • imbricate; imbricated
  • lepidote; leprose; scabrous; scaly; scurfy
  • squamulose
  • lined; seamed
  • pocked; pockmarked; potholed
  • rock-ribbed; rockbound
  • rocky; bouldery; bouldered; stony
  • gravelly; pebbly; shingly
  • roughish
  • rugose
  • sandpapery
  • saw-like
  • scabby
  • shagged; shaggy
  • textured; rough-textured; coarse-textured
  • verrucose; warty; wartlike


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