rough (a)
unsmooth (a)

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type a
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def having or caused by an irregular surface
examples trees with rough bark
rough ground
rough skin
rough blankets
his unsmooth face
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Also see coarse, harsh; irregular; nonslippery; uneven; unironed, wrinkled; unpolished
Derivationally related form rough → roughness
Antonym rough → smooth
Similar to abrasive, scratchy; alligatored, cracked; barky; broken, rugged; bullate; bumpy; chapped, cracked, roughened; corded, twilled; costate, ribbed; cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous; crushed; homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy; imbricate, imbricated; lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy; squamulose; lined, seamed; pocked, pockmarked, potholed; rock-ribbed, rockbound; rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony; gravelly, pebbly, shingly; roughish; rugose; sandpapery; saw-like; scabby; shagged, shaggy; textured, rough-textured, coarse-textured; verrucose, warty, wartlike
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Also see uneven; unfinished; unironed, wrinkled; irregular; coarse, harsh; nonslippery
Antonym smooth → rough
Similar to abrasive, scratchy; alligatored, cracked; barky; broken, rugged; bullate; bumpy; chapped, cracked, roughened; corded, twilled; costate, ribbed; cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous; crushed; homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy; imbricate, imbricated; lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy; squamulose; lined, seamed; pocked, pockmarked, potholed; rock-ribbed, rockbound; rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony; gravelly, pebbly, shingly; roughish; rugose; sandpapery; saw-like; scabby; shagged, shaggy; textured, rough-textured, coarse-textured; verrucose, warty, wartlike
Derived from adjective roughly → rough
Derivationally related form roughness → rough

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