| coarse | | |
| adj. | 1. coarse, harsh | of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles.; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" |
| ~ large-grained, coarse-grained | not having a fine texture.; "coarse-grained wood"; "large-grained sand" |
| ~ coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, farinaceous, mealy | composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" |
| ~ granulated | made grainy or formed into granules.; "granulated sugar" |
| ~ plush-like, plushy | (of textures) resembling plush. |
| ~ loose, open | (of textures) full of small openings or gaps.; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" |
| ~ rough, unsmooth | having or caused by an irregular surface.; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" |
| adj. | 2. coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar | lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" |
| ~ unrefined | (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" |
| adj. | 3. coarse, common | of low or inferior quality or value.; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| rough | | |
| n. (location) | 1. rough | the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short. |
| ~ golf course, links course | course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf. |
| ~ land site, site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).; "a good site for the school" |
| v. (creation) | 2. rough, rough in, rough out | prepare in preliminary or sketchy form. |
| ~ prepare | to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery.; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech" |
| adj. | 3. rough, unsmooth | having or caused by an irregular surface.; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" |
| ~ uneven | not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture.; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain" |
| ~ unironed, wrinkled | (of linens or clothes) not ironed.; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans" |
| ~ unpolished | not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing.; "dull unpolished shoes" |
| ~ irregular | contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice.; "irregular hiring practices" |
| ~ coarse, harsh | of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles.; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" |
| ~ nonslippery | not slippery; not likely to slip or skid. |
| ~ abrasive, scratchy | causing abrasion. |
| ~ alligatored, cracked | of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide. |
| ~ barky | resembling the rough bark of a tree.; "the rattlesnake's barky scales" |
| ~ rugged, broken | topographically very uneven.; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" |
| ~ bullate | of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered. |
| ~ bumpy | covered with or full of bumps.; "a bumpy country road" |
| ~ chapped, cracked, roughened | used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure.; "chapped lips" |
| ~ corded, twilled | of textiles; having parallel raised lines. |
| ~ costate, ribbed | (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture. |
| ~ cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous | having hills and crags.; "hilly terrain" |
| ~ crushed | treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance.; "crushed velvet" |
| ~ homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy | of textiles; having a rough surface.; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" |
| ~ imbricate, imbricated | used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles. |
| ~ lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy | rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf. |
| ~ squamulose | covered with tiny scales. |
| ~ lined, seamed | (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams.; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face" |
| ~ pocked, pockmarked, potholed | used of paved surfaces having holes or pits. |
| ~ rock-ribbed, rockbound | abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps.; "the rock-ribbed coast of Maine" |
| ~ bouldered, bouldery, rocky, stony | abounding in rocks or stones.; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" |
| ~ gravelly, pebbly, shingly | abounding in small stones.; "landed at a shingly little beach" |
| ~ roughish | somewhat rough. |
| ~ rugose | of leaves; ridged or wrinkled. |
| ~ sandpapery | having the abrasive texture of sandpaper. |
| ~ saw-like | having rough edges that can be used for sawing. |
| ~ scabby | covered with scabs. |
| ~ shagged, shaggy | having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags.; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" |
| ~ coarse-textured, rough-textured, textured | having surface roughness.; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed" |
| ~ verrucose, wartlike, warty | (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts. |
| adj. | 4. rough | (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse.; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" |
| ~ unrefined | (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" |
| adj. | 5. approximate, approximative, rough | not quite exact or correct.; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" |
| ~ inexact | not exact. |
| adj. | 6. rocky, rough | full of hardship or trials.; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 7. boisterous, fierce, rough | violently agitated and turbulent.; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"; "rough weather"; "rough seas" |
| ~ stormy | (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion.; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" |
| adj. | 8. grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.; "a gravelly voice" |
| ~ cacophonic, cacophonous | having an unpleasant sound.; "as cacophonous as a henyard" |
| adj. | 9. pugnacious, rough | ready and able to resort to force or violence.; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"; "they were rough and determined fighting men" |
| ~ aggressive | having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends.; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers" |
| adj. | 10. rough | of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped. |
| ~ phytology, botany | the branch of biology that studies plants. |
| ~ unsubdivided, simple | (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions. |
| ~ compound | composed of more than one part.; "compound leaves are composed of several lobes"; "compound flower heads" |
| ~ bidentate | having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed. |
| ~ biserrate | having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched. |
| ~ ciliated, ciliate | having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections. |
| ~ crenate, crenated, scalloped | having a margin with rounded scallops. |
| ~ crenulate, crenulated | having a margin with small rounded teeth.; "a crenulate leaf" |
| ~ crispate | wavy or notched and curled very irregularly. |
| ~ dentate | having toothlike projections in the margin. |
| ~ denticulate | having a very finely toothed margin. |
| ~ emarginate | having a notched tip. |
| ~ erose, jaggy, jagged, notched, toothed | having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed. |
| ~ fimbriate | having a fringe of slender processes. |
| ~ laciniate, fringed | having edges irregularly and finely slashed.; "a laciniate leaf" |
| ~ lacerate, lacerated | irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.; "lacerate leaves" |
| ~ pectinate | like a comb. |
| ~ rimose | having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices.; "a tree with rimose bark" |
| ~ runcinate | having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves. |
| ~ notched, saw-toothed, serrate, serrated, toothed | notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex. |
| ~ serrulate | minutely serrated. |
| ~ spinose | having spines. |
| adj. | 11. bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough | causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.; "a rough ride" |
| adj. | 12. rough, uncut | not shaped by cutting or trimming.; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" |
| ~ unsheared | (used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared.; "unsheared beaver" |
| adj. | 13. crude, rough | not carefully or expertly made.; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" |
| ~ unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| adj. | 14. rough | not perfected.; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" |
| ~ unpolished | not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing.; "dull unpolished shoes" |
| adj. | 15. harsh, rough | unpleasantly stern.; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" |
| ~ unpleasant | disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings.; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" |
| adj. | 16. harsh, rough | unkind or cruel or uncivil.; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" |
| ~ unkind | lacking kindness.; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all" |
| adv. | 17. rough, roughly | with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly').; "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| adv. | 18. rough, roughly | with rough motion as over a rough surface.; "ride rough" |
| uneven | | |
| adj. | 1. uneven | not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture.; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain" |
| ~ crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy | uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves. |
| ~ curly-grained, wavy-grained, cross-grained | of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel. |
| ~ irregular | (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical.; "walking was difficult on the irregular cobblestoned surface" |
| ~ jagged, jaggy, scraggy | having a sharply uneven surface or outline.; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" |
| ~ lumpy | having lumps; not smooth and even in texture.; "lumpy gravy" |
| ~ out of true, untrue | not accurately fitted; not level.; "the frame was out of true"; "off-level floors and untrue doors and windows" |
| ~ patchy | irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc..; "a patchy essay"; "patchy fog" |
| ~ pebble-grained | (of leather) having a rough surface as the result of being treated with a patterned roller. |
| ~ ragged | having an irregular outline.; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line" |
| ~ unparallel | not straight or parallel. |
| ~ rough, unsmooth | having or caused by an irregular surface.; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" |
| ~ unsteady | subject to change or variation.; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice" |
| adj. | 2. mismatched, uneven | (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents.; "vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church" |
| ~ unequal | poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure. |
| adj. | 3. odd, uneven | not divisible by two. |
| adj. | 4. uneven | variable and recurring at irregular intervals.; "an uneven gait"; "uneven spacing" |
| ~ unsteady | subject to change or variation.; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice" |
| adj. | 5. scratchy, spotty, uneven | lacking consistency.; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty" |
| ~ inconsistent | displaying a lack of consistency.; "inconsistent statements cannot both be true at the same time"; "inconsistent with the roadmap" |
| undulation | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. undulation, wave | an undulating curve. |
| ~ curve, curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. |
| ~ sine curve, sinusoid | the curve of y=sin x. |
| n. (event) | 2. undulation | wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves. |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| n. (event) | 3. undulation, wave | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| ~ gravitation wave, gravity wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light. |
| ~ sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve. |
| ~ oscillation, vibration | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean. |
| ~ fluctuation | a wave motion.; "the fluctuations of the sea" |
| ~ seiche | a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances. |
| ~ standing wave, stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time. |
| ~ traveling wave, travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave. |
| ~ acoustic wave, sound wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound. |
| ~ wave form, wave shape, waveform | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time. |
| ~ blast wave, shock wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity.; "the explosion created a shock wave" |
| ~ pulsation, pulse, pulsing, impulse | (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).; "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" |
| ~ flapping, fluttering, flap, flutter | the motion made by flapping up and down. |
| undulation | | |
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