Roughness
Nouns
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roughness etc. adj.
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tooth, grain, texture, ripple
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asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity
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arborescence etc. [Regularity of form.] Symmetry
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pilosity. brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet
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fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi
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lovelock
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beaucatcher
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curl paper
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goatee
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papillote, scalp lock. plumage, plumosity
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plume, panache, crest
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feather, tuft, fringe, toupee. wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down
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byssus, moss, bur
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fluff. knot (convolution) [Complex curvature.] Convolution.
Verbs
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be rough etc. adj.
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go against the grain. render-rough etc. adj.
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roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
Adjectives
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rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted
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rugged, rugose, rugous
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knurly
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asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn
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craggy, cragged
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crankling, scraggy
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prickly etc. (sharp) Sharpness
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arborescent etc. [Regularity of form.] Symmetry
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leafy, well-wooded
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feathery
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plumose, plumigerous
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laciniate, laciniform, laciniose
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pappose
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pileous, pilose
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trichogenous, trichoid [Med.]
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tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute
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crinose, crinite
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bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged
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fringed, befringed
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setous, setose, setaceous
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like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]
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rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly
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lanate, lanated
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lanuginous, lanuginose
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tomentose
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fluffy.