roughest
- 1Superlative of rough.
The roughest stretch of trail climbs steeply over loose rock and broken scree.
Sailors still remember that night as the roughest crossing of their careers.
Note
One form serves every meaning of rough: the most uneven ground, the most turbulent sea, the most unfinished draft, the most trying stretch of life. Context decides which. In Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1606), "Time and the hour runs through the roughest day" means hardship, not texture. Like most one-syllable adjectives, rough takes -est. The phrase most rough is grammatical but markedly less common.
roughest is a form of rough
rough, adjective: Having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth to the touch. Full entry
- Spelling
- rough → roughest: add -est
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