Roughness

Word ROUGHNESS
Character 9
Hyphenation rough ness
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Roughness"

What do we mean by roughness?

The property of being rough, coarseness.

Roughage; coarse fodder.

Abundance, especially of food.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Roughness

The word "roughness" in example sentences

Not just on acting ability, but all of them have a certain roughness to their appearance which Ledger just doesn't have. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The chaos and irregularity of the world - Mandelbrot referred to it as "roughness" - is something to be celebrated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Android team's mandate to continuously iterate is admirable, but according to Lockheimer, it accounts for some of Android's so-called roughness. ❋ WIRED (2011)

It was the other kind of roughness in which resided no warm affection, no heart-touch of love. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But balls need a certain "roughness" to maintain balanced flight, so Mr. N rnberg's team added the texturing so it wouldn't wobble like a beach ball. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Crowley: It is the kind of roughness that made her a household name, but in the end it may also make Sarah Palin a player who helps shape the party, not a player who leads it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. BEN RATLIFF (Music Critic, The New York Times): The first time you hear Ornette, there's this kind of roughness and chaos in it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was something odd about the transit, a kind of roughness, perhaps a heartbeat longer of disorientation, but Denoriel accepted that as a difference in the kind of magic Treowth and Gilfaethwy used. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

It was a different kind of roughness; Flinx thought it very becoming. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1983)

When I began to see any kind of roughness I just sent both the boys downstairs (it was in a big hall upstairs). ❋ Unknown (1976)

The fat man, in fact, proved to be even more useless than he looked, and treated the horses with the sort of roughness which is the product of fear. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1966)

It is solemn and noble in conception, and would be a great work but for a roughness which is more careless than archaic. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nature seen as a whole; all the characteristics and prerequisites of it come back to this, -- such as roughness, wildness, ruin, obscurity, the gloom of night or of storm; whatever the outward discrepancy, wherever the effect is produced, it is because in some way there is a gain in completeness. ❋ Various (N/A)

You know that deliberate pushing, striking or any kind of roughness is forbidden, and you could be disqualified as a player. ❋ Pauline Lester (N/A)

To Du Bellay and Sturm he complained not a little of the "roughness" of his prince, whom he had never found more "harsh." ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)

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