Adjective has 3 senses

• roughshod(s = adj.all) - (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping;


• roughshod(s = adj.all) barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious - (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "a savage slap"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "vicious kicks"


• roughshod(s = adj.all) heavy-handed - unjustly domineering; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"