1.the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

2.having or caused by an irregular surface;

trees with rough bark

3.(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse;

she was a diamond in the rough

4.not quite exact or correct;

the approximate time was 10 o'clock

5.full of hardship or trials;

the rocky road to success

6.violently agitated and turbulent;

boisterous winds and waves

7.unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound;

a gravelly voice

8.ready and able to resort to force or violence;

pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville

9.of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

10.not shaped by cutting or trimming;

an uncut diamond

11. not carefully or expertly made;

managed to make a crude splint

12. not perfected;

a rough draft

13. unpleasantly stern;

wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus

14.with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly');

he was pushed roughly aside

15.with rough motion as over a rough surface;

ride rough