Synonyms of rugged

1 Syllable

rough, strong, worn, harsh, stark, tough

2 Syllables

hardier, craggy, unsmooth, beetling, hillier, harshest, roiled, harsher, squally, squallier, scabrous, scratchy, grainier, toughest, knotty, sturdy, shaggy, toothed, jagged, puissant, lumpy, strongest, brass-bound, unshorn, roughest, hilly, shaggier, ragged, lustier, scraggy, broken, rougher, rocky, bumpier, craggier, robust, chapped, squawky, toucher, coarse, stalwart, tougher, snaggy, knottier, brassbound, sturdier, rutted, hardiest, lusty, roughhewn, stronger, grainy, gnarled, hardy, wrinkled, scratchier, cragged, wrinkly, bumpy

3 Syllables

robustious, robustuous, rigorous, asperous, unlevel, granular, kinetic, uneven, long-haired, vigorous, longhaired, perilous, furrowed, red-blooded, turbulent, difficult, inclement, coriaceous, shatterproof, tempestuous, precarious, takeover, raggedy, leathery, tattered, liverish, rocklike, coarsened, unpressed, out-of-key, out-of-tune, tuneless, hard-bitten, knockabout, hard-handed, roughened, mountainous, take-charge, take-over, hard-driving, savage, potholed, hardnosed, prominent, cross-grained, nodular, unshaven

4 Syllables

coarse-grained, unpurified, unrefined, unbreakable, protrusive, weather-beaten, irregular, infrangible, nonbreakable, unpolished, reticular, extrusive, leatherlike, heavy-duty, impugnable, unmelodious, energetic

5 Syllables

particulate, denticulate, uncivilized, tatterdemalion