"in rough form" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has been created quickly or incompletely, often with the understanding that it will later be revised or improved. For example, "I drew up the plans for the project in rough form, but they will need to be revised before we can move forward."
President Vargas diamond, Brazilian stone weighing about 727 carats in rough form.
At Tuesday's screening Mr. Stiller told attendees that his new film was still in rough form.
Once the clips are edited, though, it's easy to arrange them in the clip viewer in rough form.
T. Flynn, the director of athletics at Boston College, presented its proposal in rough form today to the 18‐man council.
Timber flooring, originally used in rough form for a strictly functional purpose, was eventually made into smooth boards, and was later used decoratively in parquetry designs.
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SASHA FRERE-JONES: When did the idea of the book occur to you, even in roughest form?
This is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand arguably to preserve them for posterity from the poems she kept in rougher form or apparently did not retain.
The group members wrote around 40 new compositions in Rishikesh, 26 of which would be recorded in very rough form at Kinfauns, Harrison's home in Esher, in May 1968.
"Bingo With the Indians" feels more like a work in progress than a successfully realized play, but even in this rough form, it has a fascinating edge.
This scene appears in a rough form on the special edition DVD and is briefly mentioned in the comic adaptation.
