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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
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* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, lowbrow, merciless, philistine, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crude, savage person |
| Synonyms: | beast, bigot, boor, brute, cannibal, clod, hooligan, hun, ignoramus, lout, monster, philistine, rascal, ruffian, troglodyte, vandal |
| Antonyms: | sophisticate |
Example Sentences
- Thus the idiom of the mandarin and the prejudices of the philistine reinforce each other.
- Welcome to the new world of higher education, in all its philistine ignorance.
- But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine.
| Main Entry: | boor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clod |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, cad, churl, dork, goon, lout, oaf, peasant, philistine, rube, vulgarian |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | charmer, enthusiast, exciter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, old-line, traditional |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| 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: | die-hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, Tory, conservative, convinced, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, firm, fogyish, immovable, inflexible, intransigent, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed |
| Antonyms: | compromising, conceding, flexible |
| Main Entry: | lout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boor |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, dolt, dork, goon, lummox, oaf, philistine, rube, slob, vulgarian |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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