rough hewn
Coarsely cut, unpolished
Rough hewn describes something cut or shaped with heavy tools but left unfinished—timber hacked with an axe rather than planed smooth, stone chiseled but not polished.
The term extends to people or things that seem unrefined but solid: a rough-hewn frontier character, his rough-hewn charm.
The suggestion is of raw material not yet subjected to polishing influences.
Also spelled rough-hewn.
- rusticRural and unrefined
- rustic charmAttractiveness of simplicity
- ruggedTough and uneven
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- timberWood for construction
timber frame · handcrafted · weathered · coarse · wooden · planks · split rail · cabin · log cabin · splintered · axe · chisel · hand tools · primitive · textured · raw · jagged · unpolished
- rusticbarns, cabins, farmhouses, log cabins, hay bales
- stone finishespolished, honed, flamed, brushed, tumbled
- Stone Sculptingchisel, mallet, rasp, flat chisel, carving
- texturessmoothness, smooth, soft, softness, coarse
rough hewnpolished
Smooth, refined, accomplished
refined · finished · elegant · sophisticated · delicate
rough hewnpolished
Smooth, refined, accomplished
refined · sophisticated · cultivated · urbane · suave
rough, hew, rougher, roughest, roughly, roughness, roughen, roughened, roughening