churlish

Main Entry:
unfeeling [uhn-fee-ling]
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
Related Words
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
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
Concept Thesaurus
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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