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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper, referring to sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, amoral, bawdy*, blue*, breezy, crude, daring, dirty, earthy, erotic, filthy*, foul, gross*, hot*, immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, lewd, lurid, naughty, obscene, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, provocative, purple*, racy, raw, ribald, salacious, salty, shady, sizzling, smart, smutty, spicy*, suggestive, unrefined, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, decent, moral, proper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthbound, earthlike, earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, temporal, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual, worldly |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | unrefined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, boorish, brutish, crass, crude, earthy, gross, inelegant, primitive, raw, rough, rude, troglodytic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unsophisticated, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | cultured, refined |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
| Main Entry: | funky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offbeat |
| Synonyms: | earthy, fashionable, hip*, modish, unconventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | down to earth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | practical |
| Synonyms: | commonsensical, earthy, folksy, informal, levelheaded, matter-of-fact, natural, plainspoken, pragmatic, real, realistic, reasonable, rustic, sensible, simple, sober-minded, unassuming, unpretentious |
| Antonyms: | dreamy, fanciful, idealistic |
| Main Entry: | earthbound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthen, earthy, secular, tellurian, telluric, terrene, terrestrial, worldly |
| Main Entry: | naturalistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic |
| Synonyms: | astute, businesslike, commonsense, down-to-earth, earthy, hard, hard-boiled, levelheaded, lifelike, natural, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prudent, rational, real, reasonable, sane, sensible, shrewd, sober, sound, true, true-life, truthful, unfantastic, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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