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Overview of noun roughness

The noun roughness has 7 senses


  • roughness, raggedness -- (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

  • harshness, roughness -- (the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses)

  • crudeness, roughness -- (an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her")

  • choppiness, roughness, rough water -- (used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather)

  • rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness -- (rowdy behavior)

  • pitting, roughness, indentation -- (the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion)

  • roughness -- (harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet")