Roughness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roughness \Rough"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being rough.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  roughness
       n 1: a texture that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
            [ant: {smoothness}]
       2: harsh or rough to the ear [syn: {harshness}]
       3: an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier
          dwellings depressed her" [syn: {crudeness}]
       4: used of the sea [syn: {choppiness}, {rough water}]
       5: rowdy behavior [syn: {rowdiness}, {rowdyism}, {disorderliness}]
       6: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of
          corrosion [syn: {pitting}, {indentation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "roughness":
     CAT, Gothicism, abruptness, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness,
     acridity, acrimony, acuteness, aerospace, aerosphere,
     aggressiveness, air hole, air pocket, airspace, animality,
     arrhythmia, asperity, astringency, atrocity, austerity, bad taste,
     barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bearishness, beastliness,
     bite, bitingness, bitterness, bloodlust, bluntness, bombasticness,
     boorishness, brashness, brokenness, brusqueness, brusquerie,
     brutality, bump, cacology, cacophony, callowness, capriciousness,
     causticity, ceiling, choppiness, churlishness, clumsiness,
     coarse-grainedness, coarseness, cracked voice, crassness,
     crosswind, crudeness, crudity, crustiness, cumbrousness, curtness,
     cuttingness, destructiveness, desultoriness, disconnectedness,
     discontinuity, discord, dryness, dysphemism, earthiness,
     eccentricity, edge, empty space, erraticness, extremity,
     favorable wind, ferociousness, fibrillation, fierceness,
     fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, fog, force, front,
     furiousness, gaudiness, gracelessness, graininess, granularity,
     granulation, greenness, grimness, grip, grittiness, grossness,
     gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness,
     harshness, head wind, heaviness, high-pressure area, hoarseness,
     hole, huskiness, ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity,
     impetuosity, impropriety, impurity, inclemency, inconcinnity,
     inconstancy, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy,
     infelicity, inhumanity, intensity, intermittence, ionosphere,
     irregularity, jerkiness, jetstream, keenness, lack of finish,
     lack of polish, leadenness, loudness, low-pressure area, malignity,
     mercilessness, meretriciousness, mindlessness, mordacity, mordancy,
     murderousness, nastiness, nondevelopment, nonuniformity, obscenity,
     overcast, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness, piquancy,
     pitilessness, pocket, poignancy, point, pompousness, ponderousness,
     poor diction, pungency, raspiness, raucity, rawness, reductionism,
     ribaldry, rigor, rudeness, savagery, scrapiness, scratchiness,
     sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, severity, sharpness, shortness,
     simplism, slipshod construction, soup, sourness, space, spasticity,
     sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, sternness,
     stertorousness, stiltedness, sting, stratosphere, stridency,
     stringency, substratosphere, surliness, tail wind, tartness,
     tastelessness, teeth, terrorism, the rough, thickness, throatiness,
     trenchancy, tropopause, troposphere, trough, truculence,
     turbulence, turgidity, ugliness, uncertainty, uncouthness,
     uncultivation, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unevenness,
     unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, ungentleness,
     ungracefulness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unrefinement,
     unripeness, unseemliness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness,
     unwieldiness, vandalism, variability, vehemence, venom,
     viciousness, violence, virulence, visibility, visibility zero,
     vulgarism, vulgarity, whimsicality, wobble