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the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped angulate, bidentate, biserrate, ciliate, crenate, crenulate, crispate, dentate, denticulate, emarginate, erose, fimbriate, fringed, lacerate, pectinate, runcinate, serrate, serrulate, rimose, spinose having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth writing" abrasive, alligatored, barky, broken, bullate, bumpy, chapped, corded, costate, cragged, crushed, homespun(p), lepidote, squamulose, lined, pocked, rocky, roughish, rugose, scabby, textured, verrucose, imbricate, sandpapery, shagged (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" unrefined not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" unpolished with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride 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 unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" unpleasant full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" difficult not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" unsheared ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" aggressive prepare in preliminary or sketchy form with roughness or violence (`rough'' is an informal variant for `roughly''); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o''clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" inexact violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" stormy unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" cacophonous |
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