| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-hearted, numb |
| Synonyms: | anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, benumbed, brutal, callous, cantankerous, churlish, cold, cold fish, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, crotchety, cruel, deadened, exacting, feelingless, hard, hardened, heartless, icy, inanimate, inhuman, insensate, insensible, insensitive, iron-hearted, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, ruthless, sensationless, senseless, severe, stony, surly, thick-skinned, tough, unamiable, uncaring, uncompassionate, uncordial, unemotional, unkind, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, feeling, loving, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | ungracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not gracious |
| Synonyms: | churlish, discourteous, disrespectful, gruff, impolite, inhospitable, offensive, rude, short, thoughtless, uncivil, uncouth, unfortunate, unmannerly, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | gracious, polite |
| Main Entry: | hard-fisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly |
| Main Entry: | Philistine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbaric, base, bawdy, blue*, boorish, brutish, cheap, churlish, common, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, immodest, impolite, improper, impure, incult, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, low, lowbred, lowdown and dirty, mean, nasty, obscene, off-color, offensive, raffish, raunchy*, raw, ribald, rough, roughneck, rude, scatological, smutty, tacky, tasteless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, vulgarian |
| Main Entry: | pinching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, hard-fisted, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, selfish, skimping, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | impolite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
abusive, acrimonious, austere, bearish, biting, bitter, blackguard, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutal, caustic, cavalier, churlish, contumelious, cool, crabbed, dedecorous, discourteous, forward, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, grim, gruff, harsh, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-conditioned, ill-mannered, immorigerous, impolite, imprudent, inaffable, obtrusive, peevish, pert, perverse, precocious, repulsive, rough, rude, rugged, sarcastic, saucy, sharp, short, snarling, sour, stern, sullen, surly, surly as a bear, tart, trenchant, unaccommodating, unbred, unceremonious, uncivil, uncivilized, uncomplaisant, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungainly, ungallant, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unpolite, venomous, virulent, vulgar
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| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
angry, bad-tempered, cacochymical, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cross, cross as a cat, cross as a crab, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, cross as two sticks, disputatious, dissentious, edgy, exceptious, excitable, fidgety, fiery, fractious, fratchy, fretful, hasty, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, in a bad temper, irascible, irritable, like tinder, like touchwood, moodish, nattlesome, on the fret, overhasty, oxythymous, passionate, peevish, peppery, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, quick, resentful, resentive, restiff, restive, shrewish, snappish, sudden and quick in quarrel, sulky, susceptible, techy, termagant, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, vindictive, virulent, warm, waspish
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| Concept: | Mean. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance, mediocrity, generality; median, mode; golden mean (mid-course) [more]; middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
-verbs
split the difference; take the average; reduce to a mean; strike a balance, pair off.
-adjectives
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral; mediocre, middle-class; commonplace (unimportant).
-adverbs
on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round numbers.
-phrases
medium tenuere beati.
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