Coarse synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
Not smooth or level:
Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
(Of a person) lacking refinement; uncouth
Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average:
Awkward; clumsy; ungainly
Extremely ruthless or cruel.
Of or characteristic of a brute.
Obscene, lewd, or vulgar:
smooth (antonym)
Having a fine texture:
nice (antonym)
Used as an intensive with and :
sophisticated (antonym)
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
gentle (antonym)
Suited to one of good breeding; refined and polite:
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Of or like a barbarian
Not carefully made or done; rough
Uneven; rough; jagged
The definition of callow is someone or something immature.
Resembling the grain of wood.
Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains:
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Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious:
Not smooth and shiny:
Rough, violent, or harsh
Grossly stupid, dull, or obtuse
With no deductions; total; entire
The definition of obscene is offensive, indecent or disgusting.
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Characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking; esp., dealing with sex in a humorously earthy or direct way
Of speech, that it is crude and offensive, typically in a sexual manner.
Of inferior or mediocre quality or value.
lewd (related)
Showing, or intended to excite, lust or sexual desire, esp. in an offensive way; lascivious
poor (related)
Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable:
Obscene or indecent:
Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
Of or like earth or soil
Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty.
(--- Baseball) Outside the foul lines:
Hoarse; harsh:
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Lacking in shade; undiminished:
Disagreeable to the sense of sight:
Made of a homespun fabric:
(Geol.) Worn down only slightly by erosion, as a land surface having steeply entrenched stream valleys that lack well-developed flood plains
Boastful or arrogant:
Unclean; dirty
incondite
Lacking refinement; crude
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Lacking refinement or polish; not elegant.
inurbane
Not urbane; crude; unpolished
(Dial.) Strong or offensive, as in smell
Low in quality, value, or importance; paltry; poor; inferior
Disagreeable to the senses:
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Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as plebeian sports;
Strong and offensive in odor or flavor:
Rough-sounding and harsh:
Inexperienced or untrained:
Causing strong dislike or aversion; disgusting; offensive
(Of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
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Foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions
Very noticeable; pronounced:
Located beyond or coming from beyond the mountains, specif. the Alps (from the viewpoint of Italy)
troglodytic
Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves
Not chaste.
The definition of vile is offensive in a way that makes you want to leave.
An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
A cruel or brutal act
Foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
(Uncountable) The condition of being indelicate
Something that is scurrilous.
The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
To make or become coarse
To disseminate widely; popularize.
refined (antonym)
Made free from other matter, or from impurities; purified
soft (antonym)
(Of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
polite (antonym)
The definition of polite is someone or something that exhibits consideration for others and socially acceptable behavior.
Brutal or cruel:
Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
Dull; uninteresting
Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
Not cultured or cultivated:
Of a barnyard
Vulgar; obscene; scurrilous
Offensive in taste or smell; nauseating
Not initiated into the inner mysteries or esoteric knowledge of something
Offensive to accepted standards of decency
Affected with plant smut
Having many crags; steep and rugged
Hard; rigid; unyielding; inflexible
Having or covered with scales or small projections and rough to the touch:
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
fine (antonym)
Very sharp; keen:
clayey (related)
friable (related)
grain (related)
silty (related)
loam (related)
subangular (related)
sub-rounded (related)
loamy (related)
micritic (related)
Synonym Study
- Ribald suggests such mild indecency or lewdness as might bring laughter from those who are not too squeamish ribald jokes
- Obscene is used of that which is offensive to decency and implies lewdness obscene gestures
- Vulgar emphasizes a lack of culture, refinement, or good taste vulgar ostentation, or may imply indecency vulgar language
- Indelicate suggests impropriety, immodesty, or tactlessness an indelicate remark
- Gross suggests a crudeness or coarseness that is brutish or repellent gross table manners
- Coarse , in this comparison, implies such a lack of refinement in manners or speech as to be offensive to one's aesthetic or moral sense coarse laughter
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