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Roughness Very Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Roughness has 8 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

2

the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

3

an unpolished unrefined quality

"the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"

4

used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

6

the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

7

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"

8

The property of being rough, coarseness.

Example Sentences
"the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" noun
"men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity" noun
"the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet" noun
Related Terms
Antonyms
smoothness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
texture unpleasantness inelegance storminess disorder corrosion intensification
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
scaliness coarseness slub harshness shagginess bumpiness prickliness gruffness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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