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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insulting, rude |
| Synonyms: | aweless, bad-mannered, blasphemous, bold, cheeky*, contemptuous, discourteous, disgracious, flip*, flippant, fresh, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impious, impolite, impudent, insolent, irreverent, misbehaved, nervy, out-of-line, profanatory, profane, sacrilegious, sassy*, saucy*, smart-alecky, snippy, uncivil, unfilial, ungracious |
| Antonyms: | civil, courteous, mannered, mannerly, nice, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impolite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having bad manners |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, boorish, churlish, crude, discourteous, disgracious, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, irritable, loutish, moody, oafish, rough, rude, sullen, uncivil, ungracious, unmannered, unmannerly, unrefined |
| Antonyms: | courteous, mannerly, polite |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | impolite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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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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