SILKIE Antonyms

• a substance that abrades or wears down

• causing abrasion

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• of low or inferior quality or value

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• having surface roughness

• sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

• having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

• topographically very uneven

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• causing abrasion

• easily irritated or annoyed

• lacking consistency

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• not refined or processed

• (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth

• having or caused by an irregular surface