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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, unpolished in manner |
| Synonyms: | awkward, backward, barnyard, boorish, cheap, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, crass, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, grody, gross*, ignorant, ill-bred, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensible, lewd, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, lowbred, oafish, obscene, raunchy*, raw, rough, rude, savage, smutty, tacky*, tactless, uncouth, unenlightened, ungainly, unskillful |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice, polished, refined, tasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Main Entry: | abrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude or brief in manner |
| Synonyms: | blunt, brusque, crude, crusty, curt, direct, discourteous, gruff, impetuous, impolite, matter-of-fact, rough, short, snappy, snippy, uncivil, ungracious |
| Antonyms: | calm, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
| Synonyms: | base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clumsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not agile; awkward |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy |
| Antonyms: | adroit, agile, athletic, clever, coordinated, couth, dexterous, expert, graceful |
| Main Entry: | coarse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not fine, rude |
| Synonyms: | base, bawdy, blue*, boorish, brutish, cheap, common, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, gross, gruff, 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, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar, vulgarian |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | coarse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, unrefined |
| Synonyms: | chapped, coarse-grained, crude, grainy, granular, harsh, homespun, impure, inferior, loose, lumpy, mediocre, particulate, poor quality, rough-hewn, rugged, unfinished, unpolished, unprocessed, unpurified |
| Antonyms: | delicate, refined, smooth, soft |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
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