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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, crazy |
| Synonyms: | clownish, crackers, daft, demented, deranged, dotty, foolish, goofy loony, nuts, nutty |
| Main Entry: | droll |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing, farcical |
| Synonyms: | absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack-up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins, funny, gagged up, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | gawky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bumbling, clownish, gauche, loutish, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, oafish, rude, rustic, splay, uncouth, ungainly |
| Antonyms: | athletic, graceful, lithe |
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, dense, doltish, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rustic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, uncouth |
| Synonyms: | awkward, boorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, dull, foolish, graceless, ignorant, inelegant, loutish, maladroit, rough, rude, stupid, uncultured, uneducated, ungainly, unmannerly, unpolished, unsophisticated |
| Antonyms: | couth, cultured, polished, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | uncouth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, uncultivated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, clownish, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, disgracious, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy-handed, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough, rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | agile, couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | zany |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, funny |
| Synonyms: | camp*, campy, clownish, comical, dumb, eccentric, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, humorous, joshing, kooky, loony, madcap, nutty, sappy*, wacky*, witty |
| Antonyms: | serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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