Synonyms of the word

rugged

• adj. Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
• adj. Nor neat nor regular; irregular, uneven.
• adj. Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
• adj. (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
• adj. (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
• adj. (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed.
• adj. Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
• adj. (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; rough to the ear.
• adj. (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled.
• adj. (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous.
• adj. (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy.
• adj. (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
• adj. Having a rug or rugs.
• adj. Covered with a rug.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rug.

broken

• v. past participle of break.
• adj. Fragmented, in separate pieces.
• adj. (of a promise, etc) Breeched; violated; not kept.
• adj. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
• adj. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
• adj. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
• adj. (of land) Uneven.
• adj. (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

clifflike

• adj. Resembling a cliff or some aspect of one; high and steep.

cliffy

• adj. Abounding in cliffs.

craggy

• adj. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

hardy

• adj. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand…
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
• n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called…

knockabout

• adj. Boisterous.
• adj. Suitable for rough use.
• n. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
• n. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
• n. (circus) A tumbler.
• n. Clothing suitable for rough use.
• n. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
• n. A person living in rough, violent conditions.

robust

• adj. Evincing strength and health; strong.
• adj. Violent; rough; rude.
• adj. Requiring strength or vigor.
• adj. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
• adj. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial…
• adj. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
• adj. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

rough

• adj. Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
• adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
• adj. Turbulent.
• adj. Difficult; trying.
• adj. Crude; unrefined.
• adj. Violent; not careful or subtle.
• adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
• adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
• adj. Harsh-tasting.
• n. The unmowed part of a golf course.
• n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
• n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by…
• n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
• n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming…
• n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.
• v. To create in an approximate form.
• v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
• v. To render rough; to roughen.
• v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
• adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

strong

• adj. Capable of producing great physical force.
• adj. Capable of withstanding great physical force.
• adj. (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.
• adj. Determined; unyielding.
• adj. Highly stimulating to the senses.
• adj. Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
• adj. Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
• adj. (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
• adj. (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change…
• adj. (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (military) Not easily subdued or taken.
• adj. (slang, US) Impressive, good.
• adj. Having a specified number of people or units.
• adj. (of a disease or symptom) severe (very bad or intense).
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. (of an argument) Convincing.
• adv. In a strong manner.

sturdy

• adj. Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.
• adj. Solid in structure or person.
• adj. (obsolete) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.
• adj. Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.
• n. A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

tough

• adj. Strong and resilient; sturdy.
• adj. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
• adj. Rugged or physically hardy.
• adj. Stubborn.
• adj. (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
• adj. Rowdy or rough.
• adj. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
• adj. (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
• interj. (slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy.
• n. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
• v. To endure.
• v. To toughen.

toughened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of toughen.

unsmooth

• adj. Not smooth; rough.
• v. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.