The phrase "rough picture" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an initial, imprecise idea, a visual representation, or a basic description. For example, "I had a rough picture of what our vacation could look like, but then the pandemic happened and changed everything."
It was ugly, Martin thought, but it was a rough picture of what was going down.
The Linnaean system will give the tree only a rough picture of the true relationships among species.
Comparing an analyst's picks to a mutual fund has its flaws, but it can be useful for a rough picture.
As newsmen and other eyewitnesses bring home their reports of a collapsed and dying Cambodia, one can put together a rough picture of how the catastrophe came about.
Because a single request can be to take down one Web page or hundreds, the numbers give only a rough picture.
Here is a rough picture of Afghanistan's traditional tribal structure and its leading tribes, as well as a description of how a reinvigorated tribal system — in theory — should work.
These priorities then form the basis for sketching out rough pictures of the future.Scenario planning draws on a wide range of disciplines and interests, including economics, psychology, politics and demographics.
The current exhibition, "In the Rough: Pictures From Nature Through the Ages," from the Boijmans Van Beuningen collection in Rotterdam, brings together Rembrandt and Dali, among many others, and runs until April 1.
In this Rovian-guided, mind-messing, pictorial era we're living in, however, you wouldn't expect that "Bush love" alone would be the only strategically applied to smooth the rough edges off these rough pictures, would you?
Notably, the roughest picture in the show features a bloody knife and a woman's cruel bejeweled hand prying open the legs of a cooked chicken.
Though the survey of households is considered a rougher picture than the survey of businesses, which does not tabulate workers by race, the figures from June sent a stark message.
