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

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roughish

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

From hence the wind was roughish generally, but quite fair, so that we frequently ran at the rate of 200 miles in the twenty-four hours, the transport being an excellent sailer.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William

He led me through the great hall, paved with roughish slabs of stone, and up a wide staircase to a gallery which ran round the four sides of the hall.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Perennial; leaves short, narrowly lanceolate, downy and roughish; flowers solitary; bracts ovate, half as long as the tube; petals rose-color or white, toothed.—Mich.,

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