Roughness
[rʌfnɪs] or ['rʌfnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) harsh or severe speech or behavior; 'men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity'; 'the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet'.
(noun.) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being rough.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Unevenness, ruggedness.[2]. Harshness, rudeness, coarseness, incivility, gruffness, bluntness, impoliteness.[3]. Acerbity, unsavoriness.[4]. Storminess, boisterousness, tempestuousness, inclemency.[5]. Violence, severity.
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Examples
- She sits, in her stately manner, holding her hand, and regardless of its roughness, puts it often to her lips. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She moved her head under his hand and smiled up at him and he felt the thick but silky roughness of the cropped head rippling between his fingers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This is probably due to a degree of roughness in the surface of fibers, often imperceptible to the eye, yet preventing them when in close contact from slipping easily upon each other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was no opportunity for conversation, on account of the roughness of the way and the noise of the wheels. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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