different between rough vs turbulent

English

Alternative forms

• ruff (colloquial)

Etymology

From Middle English rough, rogh, ro?e, row, rou, ru, ru?, ruh, from Old English r?g, r?h, from Proto-Germanic *r?haz. Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??f/
• Rhymes: -?f
• Homophone: ruff

Adjective

rough (comparative rougher, superlative roughest)

1. Not smooth; uneven.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     The rock was one of those tremendously solid brown, or rather black, rocks which emerge from the sand like something primitive. Rough with crinkled limpet shells and sparsely strewn with locks of dry seaweed, a small boy has to stretch his legs far apart, and indeed to feel rather heroic, before he gets to the top.

2. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

3. Turbulent.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:

     With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November.

4. Difficult; trying.

5. Crude; unrefined

6. Violent; not careful or subtle

7. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.

   • But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song,
     And smooth or rough, with them

8. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.

9. Harsh-tasting.

10. (chiefly Britain, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick
11. (chiefly Britain, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover

Antonyms

• smooth

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

rough (plural roughs)

1. The unmowed part of a golf course.
2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
3. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
4. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
5. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
6. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.

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7. A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rough (third-person singular simple present roughs, present participle roughing, simple past and past participle roughed)

1. To create in an approximate form.

2. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
3. To render rough; to roughen.
4. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

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5. To endure primitive conditions.
6. (transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

rough (comparative more rough, superlative most rough)

1. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

Derived terms

• sleep rough

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus, from turba (“disorder, tumult, crowd”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??bj?l?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?bj?l?nt/
• Hyphenation: tur?bu?lent

Adjective

turbulent (comparative more turbulent, superlative most turbulent)

1. violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous

2. being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• turbulent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• turbulent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• turbulent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch turbulent, from Middle French turbulent, from Old French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.by?l?nt/
• Hyphenation: tur?bu?lent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

turbulent (comparative turbulenter, superlative turbulentst)

1. turbulent

Inflection

Derived terms

• turbulentie

French

Etymology

From Middle French turbulent, from Old French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?.by.l??/

Adjective

turbulent (feminine singular turbulente, masculine plural turbulents, feminine plural turbulentes)

1. turbulent
2. unruly

Further reading

• “turbulent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turbulentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bu?l?nt/

Adjective

turbulent (comparative turbulenter, superlative am turbulentesten)

1. turbulent

Declension

Further reading

• “turbulent” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turbulentus

Adjective

turbulent (neuter singular turbulent, definite singular and plural turbulente)

1. turbulent

References

• “turbulent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turbulentus

Adjective

turbulent (neuter singular turbulent, definite singular and plural turbulente)

1. turbulent

References

• “turbulent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• türbülent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyrby?l??t/

Adjective

turbulent

1. turbulent

Romanian

Etymology

From French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus.

Adjective

turbulent m or n (feminine singular turbulent?, masculine plural turbulen?i, feminine and neuter plural turbulente)

1. turbulent

Declension