Crossword clues for rougher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rough \Rough\, a. [Compar. Rougher; superl. Roughest.] [OE. rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r?h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf. Rug, n.]
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Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically:
Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. ``Rough, uneven ways.''
--Shak.Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
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Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
More unequal than the roughest sea.
--T. Burnet. Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. ``A visage rough.''
--Dryden. ``Roughsatyrs.''
--Milton.
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Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically:
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Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough.
--Shak.A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.
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Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
On the rough edge of battle.
--Milton.A quicker and rougher remedy.
--Clarendon.Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces.
--Locke. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
--Pope.Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
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Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
He stayeth his rough wind.
--Isa. xxvii. 8.Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught. Rough diamond, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. Rough and ready.
Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. ``The rough and ready understanding.''
--Lowell.Produced offhand. ``Some rough and ready theory.''
--Tylor.
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Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: rough)
Usage examples of "rougher".
When it was over and Thure and Bud again gave their attention to the court, Bill Ugger was about to continue with his testimony, the majority of the crowd having shown themselves so plainly in sympathy with the actions of the alcalde that the rougher ones evidently thought it wise to keep quiet.
Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.
While rich travelers stayed at the large hostels in the city or at palatial inns along the silvery beaches, the Inn of the Dented Helm, owned by Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.
That valley we must cross, it is not too deep, but there are woodlands and meadows where les Criards may lurk, probably a river to cross, and the terrain will be rougher than that of the Fungus Forest.
If Dutra was the one man Kates personally wanted to hire, then this was rapidly getting much rougher than Ben had originally thought.
The ground was rougher and rockier than it looked and it was not easy to find a comfortable position, and the leg that had given him trouble on and off during the march was throbbing again from ankle to knee, and for hours, it seemed, he could not get to sleep despite his weariness.
Adam toiled on, breathing hard, careless now of the reaching thorns and heedless of the rougher ground.
After being mustered out of the Home Guard, I worked as a bouncer and blackjack dealer in one of the rougher Nine Tails casinos, served as a bargemaster on the upper reaches of the Kans for two rainy seasons, and then trained as a gardener on some of the Beak estates under the landscape artist Avrol Hume.
And so undoubtedly there were already beatnik and hippie Ediths as well as rougher, tougher types.
Supplies in the tree house should be sufficient for two weeks to cover possible loss of the playa by flood or siege, the two rougher possibilities to be faced.
America that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.
As we lumbered along, I realized we were so heavily loaded that an autorotation would be a lot rougher than anyone would like when carrying more than a ton of high explosives.
Their life was rougher than it had been, for they had now to subsist entirely upon the spoils of the chase, and bread made of ground acorns and beechnuts, mixed with a very small portion of flour.
His rougher and coarser companion, Boltrope, is drawn with scarcely less skill, and with a no less vigorous hand.
What if, as the resettled men and women of eastern Amst insist, the murderers of Daire ni Fhilim and the butchers of the Back Three have already been brought to a rougher justice than the law or shri can mete out?