tufted, Bot., Entomol. crinite; downy, nappy, Bot., Zool. pubescent, lanuginose, Bot., Zool. tomentose; woolly-haired, ulotrichous, kinky, flocculent, lanate; threadlike, filamentous, Bot., Zool. ciliated; feathery, Zool. plumate, plumous.
3. violent, disorderly, riotous, berserk, amuck; noisy, boisterous, uproarious, rowdy, rowdyish; frantic, frenzied, rampant; fierce, ferocious, furious, raging, vehement, savage.
4. turbulent, tumultuous, tempestuous, stormy; inclement, wintry, blustery; choppy, agitated.
5. rude, discourteous, impolite, uncivil, unceremonious, unmannerly, bad-mannered, disrespectful, misbehaved; indelicate, uncourtly, ungallant, indecorous; ungentlemanly, unladylike, brash, bold, hoydenish, Scot. randy; brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent, insulting, impertinent, pert, saucy, fresh; sharp, keen, trenchant, acrimonious, caustic, stinging, biting, piercing, stringent, brutal, cruel; bluff, bearish, gruff, inconsiderate, tactless, Scot. and North Eng. mislearned, blustering; sulky, morose, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-humored; sarcastic, bitter, virulent, snarling, venomous; grouchy, peevish, petulant, splenetic, thorny, cross; abrupt, blunt, brusque, curt, stern, austere; base, vile, obscene, indecent, ribald, foul mouthed, smutty, low, offensive, vulgar, crude.
6. difficult, unpleasant, hard; austere, severe, demanding; drastic, extreme, brutal.
7. (of sounds) discordant, inharmonious, disharmonious, cacophonous; harsh, grating, jarring, strident; raucous, gruff, hoarse, husky.
8. (of tastes) tart, astringent, sour, crabbed; acrid, sharp, biting, pungent, bitter, mordant; spicy, peppery.
9. uncouth, uncultured, unrefined, unpolished, uncivilized, incondite; coarse, vulgar, churlish, loutish, barbarous, brutish, wild, savage, gross; ignorant, illiterate, unlearned, untrained, untaught, untutored, uneducated, uncultivated; unskilled, unskillful, clumsy, gauche, crude; countrified, provincial, unfashionable, unsophisticated, homespun, homebred.
10. rough-hewn, crude, unwrought, uncut, unfashioned, unprepared, unprocessed; shapeless, formless, amorphous; incomplete, unfinished, imperfect; not elaborated, vague, sketchy, approximate, inexact; cursory, superficial; rudimentary, preliminary.
-n. 11. unpleasantness, difficulty, trial, tribula
tion, trouble, hardship.
12. rudiment, crude form, preliminary form, sketch, outline, foundation. -adv. 13. roughly, violently, harshly, sharply, crudely, coarsely, ungently.
-v. 14. roughen, coarsen, harshen, sharpen, hone.
15. rough up beat, pummel, thrash, manhandle, do violence to.
16. rough out sketch, outline, delineate, block out, mark out, chalk out, demarcate. roughhouse, n. rowdy conduct, rough behavior, horseplay, disorderly play; rowdyism, ruffianism, blackguardism, manhandling; brutality, ferocity, violence, brawling; brute force, barbarity, outrage, roughneck, n. Informal, rowdy, ruffian, tough; hoodlum, SI. hood. See rowdy (defs. 1,2). roughness, n. 1. coarseness, ruggedness, bumpiness, jaggedness, cragginess, cragginess; stoniness, rockiness; knottedness, nodosity, gnarledness; wrinkledness, nugosity, crinkledness, corrugation; lumpiness; irregularity, unevenness.
2. hairiness, hirsuteness, Bot., Zool. hispidity, pilos-ity; hair, thatch, shock, mat, tangle, shag; whiskers, beard, Vandyke, imperial, goatee, sideburns, mutton-