rough

adjective · /ruff/

Rough means not smooth, like a scratchy rock or a bumpy road. It can also mean hard or difficult.

In a sentence

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

having or caused by an irregular surface"trees with rough bark"
(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse"she was a diamond in the rough"
not quite exact or correct"the approximate time was 10 o'clock"
full of hardship or trials"the rocky road to success"
violently agitated and turbulent"boisterous winds and waves"
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound"a gravelly voice"
ready and able to resort to force or violence"pugnacious spirits … lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"
of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is an informal variant for ‘roughly’)"he was pushed roughly aside"
with rough motion as over a rough surface"ride rough"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).