roughish

American  

[ruhf-ish] / ˈrʌf ɪʃ /

adjective

1. rather rough.

   a roughish sea.

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roughish British  

/ ˈrʌfɪʃ /

adjective

1. somewhat rough

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Etymology

Origin of roughish

First recorded in 1755–65; rough + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

One of his interviewees described the smell as "roughish but not as bad as you might think", but there were places "where they tell me the foul air will cause instant death".

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

"Yes, sir, and I've been about among 'em, me and Jones, and there's a sight of people here, sir, as are no tenants of yours, and roughish characters some of 'em."

From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

There will be some roughish work, but I don't think you are the sort of men to shirk it.

From The Second String by Gould, Nat

It is a perennial plant, producing annually several long twining roughish striated stems, which twist from left to right, are often 15 to 20 ft. long and climb freely over hedges and bushes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa