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roughhewn
CIDE DICTIONARY
roughhewn, a.
- Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. [1913 Webster]
- Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
roughhewn
arrested, backward, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, crude, embryonic, grainy, granulated, homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, oversimple, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, simplistic, stunted, textured, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undressed, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, wimpledROGET THESAURUS
roughhewn
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.For further exploring for "roughhewn" in Webster Dictionary Online