Rough-hewn

5 definitions found

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

  Roughhewn \Rough"hewn`\, a.
     1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
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     2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A
        roughhewn seaman." --Bacon.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rough-hew
       v : hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone
           or timber" [syn: {roughcast}]
       [also: {rough-hewn}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roughhewn
       adj : of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing [syn: {rough-cut}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rough-hewn
       See {rough-hew}

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

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "roughhewn":
     arrested, backward, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained,
     corrugated, cross-grained, crude, embryonic, grainy, granulated,
     homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal,
     irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, oversimple, pimply, pitted,
     pocky, potholed, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough,
     rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, rude, rudimental,
     rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, simplistic,
     stunted, textured, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
     underdeveloped, undeveloped, undressed, uneven, unfashioned,
     unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel,
     unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated,
     ununiform, unworked, unwrought, wimpled