Synonyms for roughness
rough·ness

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1. roughness, raggednessnoun

   a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

   Synonyms:
   harshness, pitting, rowdiness, choppiness, rowdyism, disorderliness, indentation, crudeness, rough water, raggedness

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

2. harshness, roughnessnoun

   the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

   Synonyms:
   pitting, indentation, severeness, rigor, crudeness, inclemency, severity, hardness, stiffness, scratchiness, rough water, rowdiness, disorderliness, harshness, cruelness, choppiness, rigorousness, cruelty, rowdyism, abrasiveness, raggedness, rigourousness, rigour

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

3. crudeness, roughnessnoun

   an unpolished unrefined quality

   "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"

   Synonyms:
   gaucheness, pitting, rowdiness, disorderliness, primitivism, crudeness, rudeness, choppiness, indentation, harshness, crudity, rowdyism, primitiveness, raggedness, rough water

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

4. choppiness, roughness, rough waternoun

   used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

   Synonyms:
   harshness, pitting, rowdiness, choppiness, rowdyism, disorderliness, indentation, crudeness, rough water, raggedness

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

5. rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderlinessnoun

   rowdy behavior

   Synonyms:
   harshness, pitting, rowdiness, crudeness, rowdyism, disorderliness, disarray, indentation, choppiness, disorder, rough water, raggedness

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

6. pitting, roughness, indentationnoun

   the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

   Synonyms:
   harshness, pitting, indenture, indentation, indent, choppiness, rowdyism, indention, disorderliness, rowdiness, crudeness, rough water, raggedness

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

7. roughnessnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   harshness, pitting, rowdiness, choppiness, rowdyism, disorderliness, indentation, crudeness, rough water, raggedness

   Antonyms:
   smoothness

Matched Categories

1. • Corrosion
   • Inelegance
   • Intensification
   • Texture

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1. roughnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   unevenness, ruggedness

2. roughnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   harshness, rudeness, coarseness, incivility, gruffness, bluntness, impoliteness

3. roughnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   acerbity, unsavoriness

4. roughnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   storminess, boisterousness, tempestuousness, inclemency

5. roughnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   violence, severity

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1. List of paraphrases for "roughness":

   hardness

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1. David Clarke:

   When you apply a voltage to them relative to some background there is an attractive force between the nanowires and the substrate that deforms the elastomer, elastomer rubber is very soft and so the surface becomes rough, and it is that roughness that scatters light.

2. Luc Arnal:

   In terms of potential applications, our findings could be used to improve the way we design alarm sounds. The same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing.

3. Yet Trump:

   Nobody's coming in. We're not allowing people to come in, if you look at what happened in Mexico two days ago with the roughness of these people in the second caravan that's been forming, and also frankly in the first caravan, and now they have one forming in El Salvador. ... We are thinking very seriously, immediately stopping aid to those countries because frankly, they're doing nothing for the American people.

4. Luc Arnal:

   Roughness refers to fast sound changes in loudness (in a 30-150Hz frequency range) of a sound that can be high-pitched or not.

5. David Poeppel:

   These findings suggest that the design of alarm signals can be further improved, the same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing.