Meaning

7 senses
  1. The unmowed part of a golf course.

    Rough

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

  2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

  3. A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

  4. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

  5. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.

  6. A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.

  7. (obsolete)Boisterous weather.

Examples

364 sentences
  1. I have a rough idea where it is.

    Я приблизно знаю, де воно. — shanghainese

    ruЯ имею смутное представление о том, где это находится. — marafon

    deIch habe eine ungefähre Ahnung, wo das ist. — cost

  2. Tom is having a rough week, isn't he?

    У Тома складний тиждень, правда? — deniko

  3. This paper is rough.

    Цей папір грубий. — deniko

    ruЭта бумага грубая. — fjay69

    deDieses Papier ist rau. — Tamy

  4. You'll have a rough time.

    Тобі буде складно. — deniko

    ruВам будет трудно. — marafon

    deDu wirst es nicht leicht haben. — al_ex_an_der

  5. Don't get rough with Tom.

    Не будь грубим з Томом. — deniko

    ruНе будь груб с Томом. — sharptoothed

Translations

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By meaning 1
unmowed part of golf-course:

Origin

From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh

From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.

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Forms

plural: roughs
Singularrough
Pluralroughs

regular

Word family

1 related words

Collocations

11 patterns
  • had a rough
  • a rough day
  • rough day
  • a rough time
  • a rough week
  • through a rough
  • was a rough
  • rough neighborhood
  • rough time
  • pretty rough
  • rough week

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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