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adjective

Definition of roughenednext
as in jagged
not having a level or smooth surface roughened hands from hard work

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roughened

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verb

past tense of roughen
as in scuffed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roughened
  1. jagged
  2. uneven
  3. rough
  4. rugged
  5. broken
  6. ragged
Adjective
  • The picture depicts a bustling market of shoppers and vendors, with a jagged line reminiscent of those on graphs winding through the stalls.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, vascular dementia began to take her down precipitously, mentally and physically, in jagged, irregular steps.
    Bellamy Young, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of jagged
Adjective
  • One thing that stands out to me is the federal government’s seeming use of fear, confusion and uncertainty—combined with very nuanced language—to target individuals, agencies and companies who, in many cases, have been trying to do the right thing by leveling the uneven playing field of the past.
    Doug Melville, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • An uneven merger landscape had a ripple effect on several players, and a sector-wide shift towards the premium end of the market left budget carriers scrambling to rethink their business models.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of uneven
Adjective
  • For key factors, such as tenure and years of experience, companies frequently rely on rough estimates from HR.
    Lyssa Hansard, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The most common model in the United States was the highly successful iTunes Store, which allowed listeners to purchase both albums and single tracks, abiding by a rough dollar-per-song value inherited from the age of LPs and CDs.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of rough
Adjective
  • The West Coast Fishing Club is loved for serving as a rugged haven on British Columbia’s remote ancestral and unceded territory of the Haida Nation in Haida Gwaii, surrounded by dramatic coastal landscapes and teeming with wildlife.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Lightning from rare coastal thunderstorms that rolled over the rugged, unsettled land would strike mountaintops, sometimes igniting a fire.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of rugged
Adjective
  • But the supply chains were so broken because of the pandemic.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • All these and more can be seen below in a map of the 57 shots the 23-year-old former Arsenal academy youngster faced in the league before that untimely broken wrist against Mansfield Town on November 9.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of broken
Adjective
  • Again, this somewhat ragged rendition isn’t equal to the multi-layered studio version or live ones heard on bootlegs; in particular, the Stills and Young interplay from a Dallas 1968 show makes the Springfield sound like the true originators of the jam band concept.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Carl Wanderer was sentenced to hang for killing the unnamed ragged stranger.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of ragged
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