DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: NOUN
- N/A
- A rowdy; a ruffian; a rude, coarse fellow; one given to riotous violence; a bully.
- A person given to violent or disorderly behavior; a rowdy.
- A difficult or disagreeable aspect or condition of something.
- A disorderly, unrefined, or unfinished state.
- The area of a golf hole in which the grass is left unmowed or is cut to a length longer than that of the fairway.
- Rugged overgrown terrain.
- The surface or part of something that is uneven or coarse.
- The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
- [In a foot-note Scaramelli is quoted to the effect that the word signifies in English “persona bassa e vile.”]
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: ADJECTIVE
- Hard to control
- Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
- Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
- Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
- Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
- Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
- Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
- Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
- Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- Requiring much effort and trouble
- Not perfected
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- Having or caused by an irregular surface
- Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- Not quite exact or correct
- Unpleasantly stern
- Not carefully or expertly made
- Ready and able to resort to force or violence
- Not shaped by cutting or trimming
- Full of hardship or trials
- Violently agitated and turbulent
- Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed.
- Being in a natural state.
- Harsh to the ear.
- Lacking polish or finesse.
- Characterized by violence or crime.
- Boisterous, disorderly, or given to violence.
- Characterized by or done with violence or forcefulness.
- Unpleasant or difficult.
- Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather.
- Characterized by violent motion; turbulent.
- Difficult to travel over or through.
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch.
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth.
- Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: VERB
- To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
- Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
- To treat roughly or with physical violence.
- To treat (an opposing player) with unnecessary roughness, often in violation of the rules.
- To prepare or indicate in an unfinished form.
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: ADVERB
- N/A
- With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
- With rough motion as over a rough surface
- In a rough manner; roughly.
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
- Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
- Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
- Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
- Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.
- Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
- To perplex; embarrass.
- To make difficult; impede.
- Not easy
- To make rough; give a rough condition or appearance to; roughen: as, to rough a horse's shoes to prevent slipping.
- To execute or shape out roughly; finish partially or in the rough; prepare for a finishing operation: as, to rough out building-stones.
- To break in a horse, especially for military use.
- To behave roughly; specifically, to break the rules in boxing by too much roughness.
- A bad spelling of ruff.
- In hat-manuf., to compact (the felt) by moisture, heat, and pressure.
- To expose to winter weather, as cattle; permit to run at large during the winter.
- Unkind or cruel or uncivil
- Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- In botany, same as scabrous.
- Astringent: said of wines or other beverages: as, a rough claret.
- Coarse; stale: as, rough bread; rough fish.
- Characterized by violent or disorderly action or movement; rudely agitated or disturbed; boisterously violent; unrestrained: as, rough water; rough play.
- Lacking refinement; rude in character or action; unpolished; untrained; uncouth; awkward: as, rough kindness or attendance; a rough backwoodsman.
- Characterized by harshness or asperity; disagreeably severe or coarse; discordant: used of things and actions with reference to their effects upon the senses or feelings, actions, sounds, etc.: as, rough weather; a rough remedy; rough treatment.
- Crudely done or considered; indefinitely approximate; vague; partial; careless; hasty: as, to make a rough estimate or calculation; at a rough guess.
- Rugged in form, outline, or appearance; harsh or unpleasing to the eye; irregular.
- Not smoothed or formed by art; existing or left in a natural or an incomplete state; crude; unwrought; uneven; untrimmed: as, the rough materials of manufacture.
- Roughly; in a coarse, crude, or harsh manner.
- Of the margin of a leaf shape
- Not smooth to the touch or to the sight; uneven, from projections, ridges, wrinkles, or the like; broken in outline or continuity by protruding points or lines, irregularities, or obstructions; shaggy: as, a rough surface of any kind; rough land; a rough road; rough cloth.
- (idiom) (rough it) To live without the usual comforts and conveniences.
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: RELATED WORDS
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
- Fierce, Shaggy, Scratchy, Rugged, Unsmooth, Jagged, Unpolished, Jarring, Roughened, Hard, Difficult, Stormy, Harsh, Bumpy, Rocky
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
- Fierce, Shaggy, Scratchy, Rugged, Unsmooth, Jagged, Unpolished, Jarring, Roughened, Hard, Difficult, Stormy, Harsh, Bumpy, Rocky
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It certainly can make for a difficult marriage.
- Find it difficult to get around your bathroom?
- Metaphors are more difficult to teach than similes.
- Times have been so difficult in recent months.
- The use of cryptography is complex and difficult.
- Slow and difficult process to retrieve boarding pass.
- Calamity player, pure summoner would be insanely difficult.
- You are saying it is more difficult, music is more difficult?
- Some dailies are more difficult than others, a lot more difficult.
- Advancing racial equity is already difficult, but then you add the scope and it becomes more difficult.
- Last week was rough for me as well.
- Reality Check: How many rough sleepers are there?
- We use rough cut maple for the top.
- Herculean judge may provide a rough guide here.
- This is the rough space in a mediation.
- Metal toy boxes shall not have rough or sharp edges, and wooden toy boxes shall not have splinters and other rough areas.
- People who have been seen rough sleeping by outreach teams, and those who have visited services reporting that they are a rough sleeper.
- And he wants to go on collecting shoes for the youngsters on those rough roads and rough courts back in Minna.
- Rectangle Rough Sawn Wormy Maple top with Mission edge is standard Solid wood Rough Sawn panel sides and back.
- Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way.
DIFFICULT vs ROUGH: QUESTIONS
- Why is requirements elicitation and analysis difficult?
- Why is objective irreligiosity difficult to measure?
- Are steroid cycle protocols difficult to understand?
- How to manage conflict and difficult conversations?
- How difficult is electronics and Instrumentation Engineering?
- Why is debugging in software development difficult?
- Should monoglot medievalists bother with difficult languages?
- Are difficult conversations sabotaging your working relationships?
- What causes hyperactivity and difficult concentration?
- How difficult are difficult people in the workplace?
- Does Mayflower provide rough estimates of costs upfront?
- Can rough patches on granite countertops grow back?
- Did Stephen Strasburg feel pain after rough outing?
- What is the rough mechanical stage of construction?
- Does rough lumber shrinkage cause crown molding gap?
- Why are Malays considered rough and unsophisticated?
- Does rough fuzzy automata accept rough fuzzy regular language?
- When do decision-theoretic rough sets degenerate into standard rough sets?
- How many units of rough stone in a large rough log?
- Why is the rough endoplasmic membrane called Rough?