Indelicate Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-dĕlĭ-kĭt
Not in keeping with conventional mores
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. immodest
  2. improper
  3. indecent
  4. indecorous
  5. naughty
  6. unbecoming
  7. unbefitting
  8. unseemly
  9. untoward
Lacking in delicacy or refinement
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. coarse
  2. gross
  3. indecorous
  4. rude
  5. uncouth
  6. unrefined
  7. vulgar
  8. barbarian
  9. barbaric
  10. boorish
  11. churlish
  12. crass
  13. brash
  14. crude
  15. immodest
  16. ill-bred
  17. impolite
  18. philistine
  19. improper
  20. rough
  21. indecent
  22. tasteless
  23. lewd
  24. uncivilized
  25. offensive
  26. raw
  27. uncultivated
  28. uncultured
  29. salacious
  30. unpolished
  31. scabrous
  32. tactless
  33. unbecoming
  34. unchaste
  35. unseemly
Antonyms:
  1. decorous
Lacking sensitivity and skill in dealing with others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. brash
  2. clumsy
  3. gauche
  4. impolitic
  5. maladroit
  6. off-color
  7. tactless
  8. undiplomatic
  9. unpolitic
  10. untactful
  11. off-colour
Antonyms:
  1. delicate
  2. tactful
  3. nice
  4. decent
  5. inoffensive
  6. pure
Slightly at odds with established standards of propriety; somewhat improper, offensive, or coarse:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unseemly
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. immodesty
  2. indelicacy
  3. salaciousness
  4. salacity
  5. scabrousness

Words Related to Indelicate

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Indelicate Sentence Examples

  • This unprincipled adventurer, even before Catherine's death in September 1548, paid indelicate attentions to Elizabeth.

  • She is so near to me that it almost seems indelicate to speak of her.

  • So that was how a lady announced she was pregnant under such indelicate circumstances.

  • This "Palace language" appears to have come into existence from a desire to avoid the employment in the presence of royalty of downright expressions of vulgarity or of words which might be capable of conveying an unpleasant or indelicate idea other than the meaning intended.

  • Greig, who was sensitive to anything he considered too indelicate for publication, put a red pencil through some of the cruder ditties.

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