1.the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
2.having or caused by an irregular surface;
trees with rough bark
3.(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse;
she was a diamond in the rough
4.not quite exact or correct;
the approximate time was 10 o'clock
5.full of hardship or trials;
the rocky road to success
6.violently agitated and turbulent;
boisterous winds and waves
7.unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound;
a gravelly voice
8.ready and able to resort to force or violence;
pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville
9.of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
10.not shaped by cutting or trimming;
an uncut diamond
11. not carefully or expertly made;
managed to make a crude splint
12. not perfected;
a rough draft
13. unpleasantly stern;
wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus
14.with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly');
he was pushed roughly aside
15.with rough motion as over a rough surface;
ride rough
1.prepare in preliminary or sketchy form