- (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
- (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
- (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
- (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
- (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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