roughish

American  

[ruhf-ish] / ˈrʌf ɪʃ /

adjective

1. rather rough.

   a roughish sea.

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roughish British  

/ ˈrʌfɪʃ /

adjective

1. somewhat rough

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Etymology

Origin of roughish

First recorded in 1755–65; rough + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

One of his interviewees described the smell as "roughish but not as bad as you might think", but there were places "where they tell me the foul air will cause instant death".

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

From hence the wind was roughish generally, but quite fair, so that we frequently ran at the rate of 200 miles in the twenty-four hours, the transport being an excellent sailer.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William

Fruit medium, flat, regular; Surface roughish, uneven, greenish-yellow, blushed and russeted; Dots numerous, minute, russet veined.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Embryo simply curved.—A tall roughish annual, with digitate leaves of 5–7 linear-lanceolate coarsely toothed leaflets, the upper alternate; the inner bark of very tough fibres.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

After leaving New Orleans early in April, 1903, she encountered roughish weather in the Gulf of Mexico.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various