roughness

Roget category 256

2. Words relating to space
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#256. Roughness

noun

roughness etc. adj. — tooth, grain, texture, ripple — asperity, rugosity^†, salebrosity^†, corrugation, nodosity^† — arborescence^† etc. 242 — 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) 248.

verb

be rough etc. adj. — go against the grain.
render-rough etc. adj. — roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

adjective

rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted — rugged, rugose^†, rugous^† — knurly^† — asperous^†, crisp, salebrous^†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^†, roughhewn^† — craggy, cragged — crankling^†, scraggy — prickly etc. (sharp) 253 — arborescent etc. 242^† — leafy, well-wooded — feathery — plumose, plumigerous^† — laciniate^†, laciniform^†, laciniose^† — pappose^† — pileous^†, pilose^† — trichogenous^†, trichoid [Med.] — 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" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly — lanate^†, lanated^† — lanuginous^†, lanuginose^† — tomentose^† — fluffy.

adverb

against the grain.

phrase

cabello luengo y corto el seso [Sp.].

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