Synonyms for Rugged:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • broken,
  • rugged.
  •big, strong (adjective)
  • hardy,
  • muscular,
  • unflagging,
  • forceful,
  • brawny,
  • indefatigable.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • in temperate,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • in tenser,
  • in-tense,
  • in-temperate,
  • un-palatable,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un pleasant,
  • in tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • un-pleasant,
  • in-tensest,
  • dis pleasing,
  • galling,
  • un palatable,
  • dis tasteful.
  •bumpy (adjective)
  • lumpy,
  • rutted,
  • jarring,
  • potholed.
  •bumpy, weathered (adjective)
  • unsmooth,
  • Asperous,
  • furrowed,
  • unrefined,
  • scraggy,
  • difficult,
  • unlevel,
  • stark,
  • worn,
  • roughhewn.
  •coarse (adjective)
  • coarse grained,
  • more chapped,
  • coarsegrained,
  • more rough-hewn,
  • impure,
  • more rough hewn,
  • more coarse-grained,
  • most coarse-grained,
  • most rough-hewn,
  • more coarsegrained,
  • most coarse grained,
  • most inferior,
  • un purified,
  • un-finished,
  • unprocessed,
  • rough hewn,
  • more unpurified,
  • un processed,
  • most rough hewn,
  • more particulate,
  • most coarsegrained,
  • most unpurified,
  • more coarse grained,
  • un-purified,
  • un-processed,
  • most particulate,
  • more roughhewn,
  • most roughhewn,
  • un finished,
  • most chapped.
  •craggy (adjective)
  • rockbound,
  • Rock-bound,
  • scraggiest.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • perilous.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • bothersome,
  • cantankerous,
  • burdensome,
  • finicky,
  • adverse,
  • demanding,
  • complicated,
  • onerous,
  • thorny,
  • contrary,
  • laborious,
  • severe,
  • trying,
  • wearing,
  • arduous,
  • toilsome,
  • fussy,
  • troublesome,
  • stressful,
  • cumbersome,
  • oppressive,
  • tight,
  • complex,
  • wearying,
  • wearisome,
  • strenuous,
  • formidable,
  • ticklish,
  • tricky,
  • grinding.
  •difficult, rigorous (adjective)
  • Operose,
  • heavy sledding,
  • hairy,
  • uncompromising,
  • stern,
  • exacting,
  • no picnic,
  • taxing,
  • murder,
  • large order.
  •energetic (adjective)
  • ball of fire,
  • kinetic,
  • highpowered,
  • red-blooded,
  • forcible,
  • demoniac.
  •gnarled (adjective)
  • more contorted,
  • de-formed,
  • de formed,
  • most contorted,
  • more tortured,
  • out shape,
  • most tortured.
  •hard (adjective)
  • Difficile,
  • coldblooded,
  • harder,
  • Toilful,
  • uphill battle,
  • effortful,
  • hard as nails,
  • hardboiled,
  • unsparing.
  •hard-bitten (adjective)
  • hardhanded,
  • hardbitten.
  •hardy (adjective)
  • ablebodied,
  • able bodied,
  • mightiest,
  • more inured,
  • more acclimatized,
  • most inured,
  • most acclimatized.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • more out-of-key,
  • out of key,
  • in-compatible,
  • unmusical,
  • more out of key,
  • most screeching,
  • un melodious,
  • most tuneless,
  • in compatible,
  • more screeching,
  • most creaking,
  • more out of tune,
  • dis-sonant,
  • dis sonant,
  • more unmelodious,
  • more clashing,
  • more jangling,
  • most jangling,
  • most unmelodious,
  • un-musical,
  • most stridulous,
  • most out of key,
  • more caterwauling,
  • most out of tune,
  • off key,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • dis agreeing,
  • most out-of-key,
  • offkey,
  • un-melodious,
  • most out-of-tune,
  • more stridulous,
  • most clashing,
  • more out-of-tune,
  • more tuneless,
  • un musical,
  • most caterwauling,
  • more creaking.
  •hilly (adjective)
  • Undulating.
  •husky (adjective)
  • most well built,
  • more wellbuilt,
  • well built,
  • more well-built,
  • more well built,
  • most well-built,
  • wellbuilt,
  • most wellbuilt.
  •jagged (adjective)
  • more denticulate,
  • most toothed,
  • in-dented,
  • more toothed,
  • snaggiest,
  • ridged,
  • snaggier,
  • most denticulate,
  • in dented.
  •knockabout (adjective)
  • knockabout.
  •knotty (adjective)
  • maziest,
  • most nodulous,
  • more reticular,
  • Nodulous,
  • mystifying,
  • reticular,
  • more nodulous,
  • most gordian,
  • more gordian,
  • more ramified,
  • mazier,
  • most ramified,
  • most reticular.
  •leathery (adjective)
  • coriaceous,
  • leatherlike.
  •mean (adjective)
  • toucher,
  • liverish,
  • low-down dirty,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • snide,
  • hardnosed,
  • the lowest,
  • low-down and dirty.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • jagged,
  • tuneless,
  • ironhanded,
  • mean,
  • gnarled,
  • tough,
  • out of tune,
  • husky,
  • unpolished,
  • precarious,
  • powerhouse,
  • toothed,
  • turbulent,
  • shaggy,
  • long-haired,
  • tough as nails,
  • brick-wall,
  • Snaggy,
  • protrusive,
  • scratchy,
  • agrestic,
  • bitter,
  • badly dressed,
  • ragged,
  • in good condition,
  • squawky,
  • in a state of nature,
  • Stridulous,
  • poorly made,
  • worse for wear,
  • weather-beaten,
  • grainy,
  • not flat,
  • down at heel,
  • uneven,
  • extrusive,
  • tempestuous,
  • out-of-tune,
  • leathery,
  • zappy,
  • chapped,
  • badly worn,
  • playing with fire,
  • unmelodious,
  • Stormful,
  • stirred up,
  • uncivilized,
  • on thin ice,
  • rough,
  • sticky,
  • out of shape,
  • easily seen,
  • touch and go,
  • ill-bred,
  • hanging by thread,
  • unmodified,
  • nonsymmetrical,
  • granular,
  • nonliterate,
  • illbred,
  • unpurified,
  • denticulate,
  • rocky,
  • physically fit,
  • hard,
  • uphill,
  • beetling,
  • off balance,
  • in good health,
  • in the pink,
  • down at the heel,
  • in good shape,
  • energetic,
  • brutish,
  • built to last,
  • not smooth,
  • out-of-key,
  • sturdy,
  • mazy,
  • dead set on,
  • vigorous,
  • in tatters,
  • out on limb,
  • rigorous,
  • robustious,
  • coarse,
  • protuberant,
  • out-standing,
  • savage,
  • knotty,
  • unpressed,
  • particulate,
  • not level,
  • to the fore,
  • strong,
  • harsh,
  • fit as fiddle,
  • ill-matched,
  • in rags,
  • strong arm,
  • uncombed,
  • prominent,
  • lusty,
  • robust,
  • inclement,
  • in the foreground,
  • poor quality,
  • brick wall,
  • coarse-grained,
  • craggy,
  • robustuous,
  • well-built,
  • in fine fettle.
  •perilous (adjective)
  • un stablest,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-safer,
  • un healthiest,
  • un safest,
  • un healthy,
  • un-healthy,
  • un steady,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un-safest,
  • un healthier,
  • un stabler,
  • in securer,
  • un sure,
  • un steadiest,
  • un sound,
  • un sounder,
  • un-sure,
  • in-securest,
  • un-stablest,
  • un-stabler,
  • un safe,
  • ex posed,
  • un-sound,
  • un stable,
  • in-secure,
  • most dynamite,
  • un safer,
  • more dynamite,
  • in-securer,
  • ex-posed,
  • un-stable,
  • un-soundest,
  • touch go,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un steadier,
  • in securest,
  • in secure,
  • un-safe,
  • un-steadier.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • more impugnable,
  • out limb,
  • most impugnable,
  • un settled,
  • un reliable,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-settled,
  • pre carious,
  • in-decisive,
  • out a limb,
  • in decisive,
  • pre-carious.
  •prominent (adjective)
  • more prominent,
  • the fore,
  • out standing,
  • to fore,
  • most protrusive,
  • more protrusive,
  • most beetling,
  • more embossed,
  • un mistakable,
  • in foreground,
  • most protuberant,
  • more protruding,
  • eye catching,
  • more protuberant,
  • shooting out,
  • un-mistakable,
  • eyecatching,
  • ex tended,
  • most protruding,
  • more extrusive,
  • most embossed,
  • more beetling,
  • most extrusive,
  • ex-tended.
  •puissant (adjective)
  • puissant.
  •ragged (adjective)
  • more frazzled,
  • dis organized,
  • most unpressed,
  • more unpressed,
  • most patched,
  • un-kemptest,
  • most shredded,
  • un-pressed,
  • full holes,
  • un-kempt,
  • in holes,
  • most fragmented,
  • more battered,
  • most rent,
  • un kempter,
  • most frazzled,
  • down heel,
  • un kemptest,
  • more fragmented,
  • motheaten,
  • more rent,
  • full of holes,
  • un pressed,
  • more frayed,
  • un-kempter,
  • most battered,
  • un kempt,
  • dis-organized,
  • down the heel,
  • most frayed,
  • more patched,
  • more shredded.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • in-flexible,
  • un permissive,
  • most unpermissive,
  • de-finite,
  • unpermissive,
  • de finite,
  • more unpermissive,
  • un compromising,
  • more ironhanded,
  • most ironhanded,
  • in flexible,
  • un-compromising,
  • un-permissive.
  •robust (adjective)
  • more robustious,
  • most tiger,
  • most robustious,
  • in pink,
  • full bodied,
  • fullbodied,
  • more tiger,
  • most robustuous,
  • more robustuous,
  • most powerhouse,
  • more powerhouse,
  • zappier,
  • zappiest.
  •rocky (adjective)
  • flinty,
  • rocklike,
  • Impassible.
  •rough (adjective)
  • Scuffed,
  • stubbled,
  • bristly,
  • unshaven,
  • Knurled,
  • bumpy,
  • Crossgrained,
  • nodular,
  • rumpled,
  • stridulent,
  • sinewy,
  • cross-grained,
  • unshorn,
  • squally,
  • brambly,
  • ruffled,
  • wrinkly.
  •rough-and-tumble (adjective)
  • rough and tumble.
  •savage (adjective)
  • most unmodified,
  • un-spoiled,
  • un-domesticated,
  • in state of nature,
  • un cultured,
  • in a state nature,
  • most unbroken,
  • un-modified,
  • un spoiled,
  • non literate,
  • un-cultured,
  • unspoiled,
  • un cultivated,
  • un-broken,
  • un-restrained,
  • un-cultivated,
  • non-literate,
  • most nonliterate,
  • un domesticated,
  • more nonliterate,
  • in state nature,
  • un broken,
  • more unmodified,
  • more unbroken,
  • un modified.
  •severe, violent (adjective)
  • brutal,
  • intemperate.
  •shaggy (adjective)
  • more long haired,
  • more uncombed,
  • more long-haired,
  • most uncombed,
  • most longhaired,
  • un combed,
  • un-combed,
  • most long haired,
  • longhaired,
  • more longhaired,
  • long haired,
  • most long-haired.
  •shredded (adjective)
  • tattered.
  •stalwart (adjective)
  • more steamroller,
  • more brick-wall,
  • stalwart,
  • re-doubtable,
  • more brickwall,
  • most brick-wall,
  • un-afraid,
  • most steamroller,
  • brickwall,
  • un-daunted,
  • more brick wall,
  • most brickwall,
  • un afraid,
  • re doubtable,
  • most brick wall,
  • bound determined,
  • un daunted.
  •sticky (adjective)
  • dis-comforting,
  • more discomforting,
  • dis comforting,
  • most discomforting.
  •strong (adjective)
  • well-made,
  • heavy-duty,
  • well-founded,
  • in fine feather.
  •sturdy (adjective)
  • most strongarm,
  • re-solute,
  • more strong arm,
  • most strong-arm,
  • more strongarm,
  • built last,
  • strongarm,
  • most strong arm,
  • re solute,
  • more strong-arm.
  •tattered (adjective)
  • in shreds,
  • raggedy,
  • tatterdemalion,
  • more ripped,
  • torn to pieces,
  • torn pieces,
  • most ripped.
  •tempestuous (adjective)
  • most storming,
  • more storming,
  • un-bridled,
  • ex-cited,
  • ex cited,
  • un bridled,
  • un-controlled,
  • un controlled.
  •tough (adjective)
  • more cohesive,
  • more withstanding,
  • more molded,
  • most withstanding,
  • most steeled,
  • with standing,
  • with-standing,
  • most cohesive,
  • in-digestible,
  • more steeled,
  • in digestible,
  • most molded.
  •turbulent (adjective)
  • more howling,
  • more foaming,
  • howling,
  • most stormful,
  • more swirling,
  • more stormful,
  • most foaming,
  • tumultous- tumultuous,
  • dis ordered,
  • most howling,
  • dis-ordered,
  • Moiling,
  • more moiling,
  • most swirling,
  • most moiling.
  •unbreakable (adjective)
  • brassbound,
  • nonbreakable,
  • indestructible,
  • shatterproof,
  • infrangible,
  • non-breakable,
  • brass-bound.
  •uncivilized (adjective)
  • un holier,
  • un-godliest,
  • un-educated,
  • mannerless,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un couth,
  • dis courteous,
  • un educated,
  • more illbred,
  • more mannerless,
  • most brutish,
  • un conscionable,
  • un mannered,
  • more ill bred,
  • most mannerless,
  • un holiest,
  • un-refined,
  • un-civilized,
  • un holy,
  • un civilized,
  • un godly,
  • most ill-bred,
  • ill bred,
  • un refined,
  • un-couth,
  • dis-courteous,
  • un-godlier,
  • dis respectful,
  • un-holy,
  • un-godly,
  • more ill-bred,
  • un godlier,
  • un-mannered,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un godliest,
  • most illbred,
  • un-holiest,
  • dis-respectful,
  • most ill bred,
  • un-holier,
  • more brutish.
  •uncouth, crude (adjective)
  • boorish,
  • blunt,
  • barbarous,
  • graceless,
  • churlish,
  • uncultured,
  • loutish.
  •uneven (adjective)
  • more unsymmetrical,
  • non-symmetrical,
  • more fluctuating,
  • most unsymmetrical,
  • illmatched,
  • most ill-matched,
  • unsymmetrical,
  • more illmatched,
  • most overbalanced,
  • not parallel,
  • more overbalanced,
  • most nonsymmetrical,
  • un fairest,
  • re maining,
  • un-even,
  • over-balanced,
  • one sided,
  • more ill-matched,
  • ill matched,
  • offbalance,
  • more differing,
  • most differing,
  • un-balanced,
  • most illmatched,
  • overbalanced,
  • un-fairer,
  • un fairer,
  • un fair,
  • over balanced,
  • un-fairest,
  • onesided,
  • dis proportionate,
  • more ill matched,
  • dis-proportionate,
  • off-balance,
  • more nonsymmetrical,
  • un-fair,
  • non symmetrical,
  • un-symmetrical,
  • most ill matched,
  • un even,
  • un symmetrical.
  •unpolished (adjective)
  • in-elegant,
  • in urbane,
  • Inurbane,
  • un polished,
  • more inurbane,
  • more agrestic,
  • most agrestic,
  • un-polished,
  • illmannered,
  • most inurbane,
  • in elegant,
  • ill mannered,
  • in-urbane,
  • un-civil,
  • un civil.
  •uphill (adjective)
  • up hill,
  • up-hill.
  •vigorous (adjective)
  • take-over,
  • take-charge,
  • strong as an ox,
  • take over,
  • take charge,
  • strong as ox,
  • hard-driving.
  •weather-beaten (adjective)
  • bronzed,
  • coarsened,
  • roughened,
  • weatherbeaten.

• n.

  •
  • abrasive,
  • irregular,
  • hilly.
  •
  • closed,
  • concentric,
  • angular,
  • clean,
  • bent,
  • aerodynamic,
  • hale,
  • bulbous,
  • concave,
  • asymmetrical.
  •
  • able-bodied,
  • virile,
  • continue.
  •
  • action.
  •clifflike (noun)
  • clifflike.
  •cliffy (noun)
  • cliffy.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • knobbly,
  • healthy,
  • Ironbound,
  • rough-hewn,
  • grooved,
  • knotted,
  • hard-bitten,
  • crinkly,
  • knobby,
  • Hunky,
  • spiky,
  • rustic,
  • rough-and-tumble,
  • mountainous,
  • Hard-handed,
  • cragged,
  • wrinkled,
  • abrupt,
  • coarsely,
  • prickly,
  • textured,
  • chunky.
  •
  • powerful,
  • roiled,
  • scabrous,
  • fine,
  • athletic,
  • raging.
  •
  • roily,
  • tumultuous,
  • stormy.
  •
  • dirty.
  •
  • ugly.
  •
  • violent.
  •
  • wild.
  •
  • heavy.
  •boorish
  • rude.
  •indestructible
  • unbreakable.

Paraphrases for Rugged:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    difficult, rough, hard-wearing.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, past participle
    ruggedized.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    abrupt, arduous, austere, challenging, defective, demanding, discerning, durable, fierce, hard, harsh, injured, rude, severe, shredded, stringent, troubled, hard-working.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    beefy, bumpy, chequered, hilly, ragged, robust, steep, strong, sturdy, tough, uneven, wild, ruggedized.
  • Proper noun, singular
    robust.

Antonyms for Rugged:

• adj.

  • all
    delicate.
  • big, strong
    unstable, wobbly.
  • bumpy, weathered
    gentle, facile, calm, small, flat, mild, tiny, nice, easy, weak, even, moderate, smooth, refined, level, courteous, sophisticated.

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    overdelicate.

Homophones for Rugged:

• reseed, rosewood, Rico Act, ricotta, rectitude, reach out, rag day, roast, recite, rigid, resist, rejected, roget, rescued, regicide, rocket, recast, rest, reshoot, rajidae, russet, ragout, rested, rigidity, rhizoid, rushdie, rasta, recto, restitute, rushed, requisite, rickety, racquet, risotto, resuscitated, request, recede, rough out, roasted, rachet, Resht, rigout, rusted, rush out, rye ergot, roughcast, roughshod, rouged, rockweed, rosita, rosy-cheeked, rigged, react, ragweed, rough-cut, reseat, rackety, right, resid, ricochet, right-eyed, rogue state, rest day, razed, recode, rig out, regatta, rosette, restate, rose-cheeked, rosidae, ragged, racist, reject, requested, reset, res gestae, Rasht, rough cut, roost, reside, rock-steady, recessed, resect, rare-roasted, residue, rau-sed, right away, rossetti, resuscitate, requiescat, roquette, roseate, racket, richweed, reseda, rheostat, requite, rusty, raised, rust.