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coarseness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rudeness, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, boorishness, callousness, crassness, crudity, earthiness, harshness, indelicacy, offensiveness, poor taste, rawness, ribaldry, roughness, smut, smuttiness, uncouthness, unevenness, unrefinement |
| Antonyms: | delicacy, manners, politeness, refinement, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, bumpiness, crudity, gruffness, irregularity, unevenness, wooliness |
| Main Entry: | rudeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impoliteness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, unmannerliness, vulgarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | crassness, crudity, discourtesy, filthiness, foulness, grossness, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, rudeness |
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| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun, noun1, noun2 |
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asperous, bearded, befringed, bullate, bushy, calcified, callused, chaetigerous, ciliated, coriaceous, cragged, craggy, crankling, crinite, crinose, crisp, dumose, echinate, feathery, filamentous, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gnarled, hairy, hirsute, hispid, horripilating, irrefrangible, kerasine, knotted, laciniate, lanate, lanuginose, lanuginous, leafy, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, lined, ondoyant, pachydermatous, pappous, pilous, plumigerous, plumose, prickly, rough, rough as a bear, rough as a nutmeg, rugate, rugged, rugose, rugous, salebrous, scabrous, scored, scraggly, scraggy, scrobiculate, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shrunk, sotadic, suberose, tomentous, tufted, uneven, unpolished, unsmooth, unsnod, vermiculated, verrucose, villous, weathered, well, woolly, wrinkled
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| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affected, alabandical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, bedizened, blackguard, boorish, brutish, clownish, coarse, countrified, doggerel, dowdy, extravagant, fescennine, gaudy, gingerbread, gothic, gross, heathenish, heavy, home, homespun, horrid, ill, in bad taste, incondite, indecorous, low, meretricious, monstrous, newfangled, obsolete, obtrusive, odd, outlandish, particular, provincial, raffish, ribald, rowdy, rudas, rude, rustic, savage, shabby, slovenly, snobbish, spurcidical, tawdry, tramontane, tricked out, unbeseeming, uncivil, unclassical, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, underbred, unfashionable, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpresentable, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, vulgar
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| Concept: | Roughness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
roughness; tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity., brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock., plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee., wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff., knot (convolution).
-verbs
be rough; go against the grain., render rough; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
-adjectives
rough, uneven, scabrous, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly (sharp [more]; arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear., downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous, lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy.
-adverbs
against the grain.
-phrases
cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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| Antonyms: | smoothness |
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| Concept: | [Bad taste.] Vulgarity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding (discourtesy) [more]., courseness; indecorum, misbehavior., lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton, rusticity; boorishness; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism; ribaldry; slang (neology)., bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie., [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant., rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.
-verbs
be vulgar; misbehave; takk shop, smell of the shop.
-adjectives
in bad taste vulgar, unrefined., coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful (ugly)., dowdy; slovenly (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt., unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.
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| Antonyms: | taste |
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