roughness
noun
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Sense 1 noun
a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
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Sense 2 noun
the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
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Sense 3 noun
an unpolished unrefined quality
the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
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Sense 4 noun
used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
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Sense 5 noun
rowdy behavior
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Sense 6 noun
the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
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Sense 7 noun
harsh or severe speech or behavior
men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | smoothness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ragged |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rough |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rough |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | texture |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scaliness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tweediness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slub |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | harshness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | graininess |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shagginess |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bumpiness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | thorniness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grating |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | harsh |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | unpleasantness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | gruffness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | harsh |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | unprocessed |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | crude |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | boisterous |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | choppy |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | storminess |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | pugnacious |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | disorderly |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rowdy |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rough |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | disorder |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | dent |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | scar |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | corroding |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | intensification |