Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.

Roget 256: 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.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless^†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful; beautiless^†, semibeautiful; shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.    misshapen, misproportioned^†; monstrous; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; dumpy etc. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked etc. (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.    graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish^†; lumbering; hulky^†, hulking; unwieldy.    squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.    frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    foul etc. (dirty) 653; dingy etc. (colorless) 429; gaudy etc. (color) 428; disfigured etc. v.; discolored.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 895: discourteous, uncourteous^†; uncourtly^†; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite^†; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar etc. 851; dedecorous^†; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.    uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.    repulsive; uncomplaisant^†, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable^†; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.    taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling etc. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen etc. 901.1; peevish etc. (irascible) 901.    untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless etc. 703; ... meer laten zien

Roget 241: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn^†, unfashioned^†, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.   

Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface.

synoniem: furrowed.

Topographically very uneven:
— Rugged ground.

synoniem: broken.

Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution:
— A rugged competitive examination.
— The rugged conditions of frontier life.

synoniem: tough.

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose^†, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.    difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water.    awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn etc. (obstinate) 606; perverse, refractory, plaguy^†, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious^†; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine etc. (convoluted) 248; intricate, complicated etc. (tangled) 59; impracticable etc. (impossible) 471; not feasible etc. 470; desperate etc. (hopeless) 859.    embarrassing, perplexing etc. (uncertain) 475; delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.    under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape etc. n., in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.    reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss, etc. (uncertain) 475; at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois [Fr.], driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.    accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.    ... meer laten zien

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