rough-and-ready adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced American Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Definition of rough-and-ready adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

rough-and-ready

adjective

[usually before noun]

1simple and prepared quickly but good enough for a particular situation a rough-and-ready guide to the education system

Want to learn more?

Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.

2(of a person) not very polite, educated, or fashionable

See rough-and-ready in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Check pronunciation: rough-and-ready