<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>rougher</li><li>roughest</li><li>having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.</li><li>shaggy or coarse: a dog with a rough coat.</li><li>steep or uneven and covered with high grass, brush, trees, stones, etc.: to hunt over rough country.</li><li>acting with or characterized by violence: Boxing is a rough sport.</li><li>characterized by unnecessary violence or infractions of the rules: It was a rough prize fight.</li><li>violently disturbed or agitated; turbulent, as water or the air: a rough sea.</li><li>having a violently irregular motion; uncomfortably or dangerously uneven: The plane had a rough flight in the storm.</li><li>stormy or tempestuous, as wind or weather.</li><li>sharp or harsh: a rough temper.</li><li>unmannerly or rude: his rough and churlish manner; They exchanged rough words.</li><li>disorderly or riotous: a rough mob.</li><li>difficult or unpleasant: to have a rough time of it.</li><li>harsh to the ear; grating or jarring, as sounds.</li><li>harsh to the taste; sharp or astringent: a rough wine.</li><li>coarse, as food.</li><li>lacking culture or refinement: a rough, countrified manner.</li><li>without refinements, luxuries, or ordinary comforts or conveniences: rough camping.</li><li>requiring exertion or strength rather than intelligence or skill: rough manual labor.</li><li>not elaborated, perfected, or corrected; unpolished, as language, verse, or style: a rough draft.</li><li>made or done without any attempt at exactness, completeness, or thoroughness; approximate or tentative: a rough guess.</li><li>crude, unwrought, nonprocessed, or unprepared: rough rice.</li><li>uttered with aspiration; having the sound of h; aspirated.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>something that is rough, especially rough ground.</li><li>Golf: any part of the course bordering the fairway on which the grass, weeds, etc., are not trimmed.</li><li>the unpleasant or difficult part of anything.</li><li>anything in its crude or preliminary form, as a drawing.</li><li>Chiefly British: a rowdy; ruffian.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb:</strong></p><ul><li>in a rough manner; roughly.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>roughed</li><li>roughing</li><li>to make rough; roughen.</li><li>to give a beating to, manhandle, or subject to physical violence (often followed by up): The mob roughed up the speaker.</li><li>to subject to some rough, preliminary process of working or preparation (often followed by down, off, or out): to rough off boards.</li><li>to sketch roughly or in outline (often followed by in or out): to rough out a diagram; to rough in the conversation of a novel.</li><li>Sports: to subject (a player on the opposing team) to unnecessary physical abuse, as in blocking or tackling: The team was penalized 15 yards for roughing the kicker.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>roughed</li><li>roughing</li><li>to become rough, as a surface.</li><li>to behave roughly.</li></ul>