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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, crude |
| Synonyms: | awkward, coarse, crass, gauche, graceless, gross, indelicate, labored, oafish, raw, rough, rude, stiff*, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wooden |
| Antonyms: | elegant, glamorous, graceful, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, asinine, blundering, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, doltish, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lowbrow, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| 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: | gauche |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tactless, unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bumbling, clumsy, crude, graceless, green, halting, ham-handed, heavy-handed, ignorant, ill-bred, ill-mannered, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden |
| Antonyms: | elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined, sophisticated, tactful, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | graceless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clunky, coarse, corrupt, crude*, forced, gauche, gawky, ill-mannered, improper, indecorous, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, klutzy, loutish, oafish, outlandish, rough, rude, shameless, tasteless, two left feet, uncouth, uncultured, unfortunate, ungainly, unhappy, unmannered |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, charming, dexterous, elegant, graceful, 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: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, blue, coarse, common, contemptible, crass, crumby, dastardly, degraded, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, gross*, ignoble, ill-bred, inelegant, mean, menial, miserable, nasty, obscene, off-color, offensive, raw, rough, rude, scrubby, scruffy, scurvy, servile, sordid, unbecoming, uncouth, undignified, unrefined, unworthy, vile, woebegone, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | decent, honest, honorable, moral, respectable, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maladroit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tactless |
| Synonyms: | brash, gauche, impolitic, inconsiderate, inelegant, insensitive, thoughtless, undiplomatic, untactful, untoward |
| Notes: | maladroit means clumsy or awkward or unskillful or inept; malapropos means unseasonable or unsuitable or inappropriate |
| Antonyms: | diplomatic, nice, sensitive, tactful |
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