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Adjectives (9)
coarse
adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
coarse
adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"
gross, earthy
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
common, crude, vulgar
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
common, crude
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
Fuzzynyms (111)
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
broken, rugged
adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
coarse
adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
coarse
adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
asymmetrical, asymmetric
adj. characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
one-sided, ill-proportioned, lopsided
adj. having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other
knotted, knotty, gnarled, gnarly
adj. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
raw, unsanded
adj. used of wood and furniture; "raw wood"
common, crude, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
blue, bawdy, ribald, off-color, off-colour
adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
blue, gamy, gamey, naughty, juicy, spicy, racy, risque
adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
foul, rank, vulgar, nasty, smutty
adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous
adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
lewd, indecent, obscene, salacious
adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
base, ugly, vile
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
gross, earthy, coarse
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
common, crude, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
uncivilized
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
gauche, graceless, unpolished
adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
awkward
adj. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
artless, unsophisticated, unworldly
adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
indelicate
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
gross, earthy, coarse
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
profane
adj. not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
medium, middle, average, intermediate
adj. around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
Synonyms (129)
rough
adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
abrasive, scratchy
adj. causing abrasion
cracked, alligatored
adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
barky
adj. resembling the rough bark of a tree; "the rattlesnake's barky scales"
broken, rugged
adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
bullate
adj. of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
jarring, bumpy, jolting, jolty
adj. covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"
cracked, chapped, roughened
adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"
twill, pique, corded, twilled
adj. of textiles; having parallel raised lines
corduroy
adj. made of corduroy fabric
corduroy, log
adj. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise: "a corduroy road"
corrugated
adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"
ribbed, costate
adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
craggy, mountainous, cragged, hilly
adj. having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
crude, rude
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
crushed
adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"
lined, furrowed, seamed
adj. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"
grooved, canaliculate
adj. having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"
homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy
adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
imbricate, imbricated
adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
scaly, scabrous, leprose, scabby, scurfy
adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
pocked, potholed, pot-holed
adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
wrinkled, puckered, wrinkly
adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks"
rocky, stony, bouldery, bouldered
adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
roughish
adj. somewhat rough
rugose
adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
rutted, rutty
adj. full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"
textured, rough-textured
adj. having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"
unsmooth
adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
verrucose, warty
adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
indelicate
adj. verging on the indecent; "an indelicate proposition"
obscene
adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead
artless, uncultivated, uncultured
adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
clownish, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
low
adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"
rough
adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
rough-spoken
adj. rude or uncouth in speech
ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
adj. not befitting a gentleman
unladylike
adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
bad
adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
base
adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
coarsened
adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill
commercial
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
less
adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
poor, mediocre, second-rate
adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
ropey, ropy
adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
second-class
adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"
third-rate
adj. of lesser quality than second-rate
utility, utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
Antonyms (23)
fine
adj. of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"
smooth
adj. having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
smooth
adj. having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
decent
adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
fabulous, fab
adj. extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
polished
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
dignified
adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
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