Adjective: roughcast
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more roughcast |
| Superlative | most roughcast |
Sample Sentences
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A brilliant blaze, kindled with dry wood, enlightened the whole interior of this fresh looking, roughcast, timbered apartment. [1833, Timothy Flint, Don't give up the ship; or, The good son:]
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Understand: I'm a roughcast fly fisherman, an empirical self-taught duffer. [2003, John McPhee, The Founding Fish, page 131:]
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Objectively speaking, Nick was more handsome, with smaller, more chiseled features. But Hardy's roughcast good looks and self-assurance made Nick look callow. [2008, Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel:]
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Both had something of the traditional Quaker character, earnest, dour, enduring, scornful of imposed orthodoxies, desirous of spiritual release through a roughcast mysticism. [2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell:]
Adjectives inflected like roughcast
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From rough + cast.