What is the meaning of rough?

noun

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

verb

• Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form.
  • synonyms: rough in, rough out

adjective

• Having or caused by an irregular surface.
  • usage: "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
  • synonyms: unsmooth
• Of persons or behavior. ( lacking refinement or finesse)
  • usage: "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
• Not quite exact or correct.
  • usage: "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
  • synonyms: approximate, approximative
• Full of hardship or trials.
  • usage: "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
  • synonyms: rocky
• Violently agitated and turbulent.
  • usage: "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
  • synonyms: boisterous, fierce
• Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
  • usage: "a gravelly voice"
  • synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy
• Ready and able to resort to force or violence.
  • usage: "pugnacious spirits... Lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
  • synonyms: pugnacious
• Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped.
• Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
  • usage: "a rough ride"
  • synonyms: rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy
• Not shaped by cutting or trimming.
  • usage: "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
  • synonyms: uncut
• Not carefully or expertly made.
  • usage: "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
  • synonyms: crude
• Not perfected.
  • usage: "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
• Unpleasantly stern.
  • usage: "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
  • synonyms: harsh
• Unkind or cruel or uncivil.
  • usage: "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer"
  • synonyms: harsh

adverb

• With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'. )
  • usage: "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
  • synonyms: roughly
• With rough motion as over a rough surface.
  • usage: "ride rough"
  • synonyms: roughly