rough implies points, bristles, ridges, or projections on the surface.
a rough wooden board
harsh implies a surface or texture distinctly unpleasant to the touch.
a harsh fabric that chafes the skin
uneven implies a lack of uniformity in height, breadth, or quality.
an old house with uneven floors
rugged implies irregularity or roughness of land surface and connotes difficulty of travel.
a rugged landscape
scabrous implies scaliness or prickliness of surface.
a scabrous leaf
Example Sentences
a movie with scabrous humor
Recent Examples on the WebFor his second solo outing, the Lower East Side’s most scabrous bard decamped to a London studio. Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022 Instead of another routine foray into casual adultery as a metric of modern morality, this should have been a scabrous satire on cinema’s decline and hypocrisy’s ascendance. Armond White, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022 Pop culture commentators belatedly began to applaud Armstrong's scabrous depiction of the mega-rich and the comedic potential of the characters, including Tom and Greg. Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2021 Modernist theologians such as Edward Schillebeeckx were absolutely scabrous about the papacies of Paul VI and John Paul II, seeing in them a betrayal of the spirit of Vatican II. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021 Her first solo show in 1975, at the ragtag experimental SoHo art space 112 Greene Street, consisted of three large, scabrous canvases depicting the pared-down form of a horse cleaved by a vertical or horizontal line. Randy Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2020 On the scabrous asphalt around our Michigan home base, the T-5R would likely have all the ride comfort of a steel canoe running shallow rapids. Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 May 2020 Surfaces as varied as yoga mats and iPhone touch screens are carefully calibrated for our touch, designed to be neither too slick nor too scabrous. Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020 Underground rappers like Denzel Curry, Ghostemane and Scarlxrd have embraced their bloodletting lyrics and scabrous noise.Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Latin scabr-, scaber rough, scurfy; akin to Latin scabere to scratch — more at scab