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roughishness

roughishness noun: slight roughness.

Noun

roughishness (uncountable)

  1. Slight roughness.
    • The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory, page 91

Origin of roughishness

From roughish + -ness.

Questions about roughishness

What does roughishness mean?
Roughishness means slight roughness.
What part of speech is roughishness?
Roughishness is a noun.

Words near roughishness in the dictionary

  1. roughing up
  2. roughing up the bullpen
  3. roughings
  4. roughish
  5. roughishly
  6. roughishness
  7. Roughit
  8. roughleg
  9. roughlegs
  10. roughlier
  11. roughliest

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