Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright and vulgar |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, brilliant, catchpenny, chichi*, chintzy, coarse, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, frou-frou, garish, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, jazzy, kitschy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizzazz*, pretentious, putting on the ritz, raffish, ritzy, screaming, showy, snazzy, splashy, splendiferous, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | calm, drab, dull, modest, plain, refined, simple, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | barnyard, boorish, breezy, callous, carnal, cheap, coarse, corporeal, crass, dull, fleshly, foul, ignorant, improper, impure, in the gutter, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, lewd, loudmouthed, low, low-minded, lustful, obscene, offensive, rank, raunchy, raw, ribald, rough, rude, scatological, sensual, sexual, sleazy*, smutty, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncouth, uncultured, undiscriminating, unfeeling, unrefined, unseemly, unsophisticated, voluptuous |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harsh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, crude (to the senses) |
| Synonyms: | acrid, asperous, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raucous, rigid, rugged, rusty, screeching, severe, sharp, sour, strident, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | easy, gentle, mild, peaceful, pleasing, smooth, soft |
| Main Entry: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, baseborn, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, scurvy, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, unwashed, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong |
| Antonyms: | dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | ill-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | badly behaved |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, ill-behaved, ill-bred, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | behaved, mannered, mannerly, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immodest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameless |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, bold, brazen, coarse, depraved, forward, indecent, lewd, obscene, revealing, risqué, unashamed, unchaste, unseemly |
| Main Entry: | impure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not clean mentally, physically; mixed |
| Synonyms: | admixed, adulterated, alloyed, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, doctored, filthy, foul, gross*, grubby, immodest, immoral, indecent, infected, lewd, nasty, not pure, obscene, polluted, profaned, smutty, squalid, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unrefined, unwholesome, vile, vitiated, weighted, wicked |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, impeccable, pure, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indecent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar; offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, blue*, coarse, crude, dirty*, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross*, ill-bred, immodest, immoral, improper, impure, in bad taste, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, licentious, malodorous, off-color, outrageous, pornographic, raunchy*, raw, ridiculous, rough, salacious, scatological, shameless, shocking, smutty, tasteless, unbecoming, undecorous, unseemly, untoward, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, decent, modest, pure, virtuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indelicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | base, brash, brutish, callow, coarse, crude, earthy, embarrassing, immodest, improper, indecent, indecorous, lewd, low, lowbred, off-color, offensive, outrageous, risqué, rude, suggestive, tasteless, unbecoming, unblushing, uncouth, unseemly, untactful, untoward |
| Antonyms: | decent, delicate, inoffensive, nice, pure |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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