Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rough and ready

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables: rough and ready
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.

name

A census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States.

Example Sentences

"[A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter."
"There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]"
"The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility."
""Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it.""
"Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI)."

Inflected Forms

more rough and ready (comparative) most rough and ready (superlative) rough-and-ready (alternative)

Phrases

cheap and cheerful diamond in the rough quick-and-dirty rough around the edges

Frequently Paired Words

cheap and cheerful diamond in the rough quick-and-dirty rough around the edges

Questions

What does rough and ready mean?: Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.

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