Qualities
Synonyms for rough
Synonyms for rough: rocky, pugnacious, approximate, crude, fierce, gravelly, harsh and uncut. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 8 synonyms for rough
Interchangeable with rough, one per sense
Audited under rough's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rough carries in that sense.
- rockyadjective, in the sense "full of hardship or trials"
- pugnaciousadjective, in the sense "ready and able to resort to force or violence"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name rough as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- approximateapproximate is an adjective in the sense "not quite exact or correct"
- crudecrude is an adjective in the sense "not carefully or expertly made"
- fiercefierce is an adjective in the sense "violently agitated and turbulent"
- gravellygravelly is an adjective in the sense "unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound"
- harshharsh is an adjective in the sense "unkind or cruel or uncivil"
- uncutuncut is an adjective in the sense "not shaped by cutting or trimming"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under rough and six under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
full of hardship or trials
They were having a rough time.
The true synonym
rocky
Same sentence, swapped: They were having a rocky time.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- fierce
- crude
- dry
ready and able to resort to force or violence
They were rough and determined fighting men.
The true synonym
pugnacious
Same sentence, swapped: They were pugnacious and determined fighting men.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot rough is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- rocky
- harsh
- dry
Where rough turns up in the game
rough is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where rough is the trap
- hardadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is heavy, in the sense "given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors", and rough is on the board beside it.
- bourgeoisadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is conservative, in the sense "conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class", and rough is one of the three tiles that lose.
- ridiculousadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is absurd, in the sense "so unreasonable as to invite derision", and rough is one of the three tiles that lose.
- obsceneadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is repulsive, in the sense "offensive to the mind", and rough is on the board beside it.
Play rough
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rough reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company rough keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rough carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.