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Coarse

Definition: Coarse

Coarse

Adjective

1. Of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave".

2. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich".

3. Of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population".

4. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coarse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Coarse \Coarse\, adjective. [Comparative Coarser; superlative Coarsest.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Coarse

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Term applied to poorly balanced wines lacking quality. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Coarse

Synonyms: common (adj), crude (adj), earthy (adj), gross (adj), uncouth (adj), vulgar (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: coarse-grained (geography).
Antonym: fine (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Coarse

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.

Nonpreparation

Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.

Texture

Textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.

Uncleanness

Nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid.

Vulgarity

Coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful; (ugly).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Coarse

Specialty definitions using "coarse": coarse control, coarse grain, coarse sand, coarse waste of animal hairyarn of coarse animal hair. (references)
Etymologies containing "coarse": BoistousCogmanDungareemandil, mohairPea-jacketSkilts. (references)

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Modern Usage: Coarse

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Of coarse. Why else do you think I sent the bill to your father? (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

Tongue Twisters

If you must cross a coarse, cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross, coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully. (references; author: unknown)

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Commercial Usage: Coarse

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Horsehair and Other Coarse Animal Hair Excluding Wool in Europe (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Horsehair and Other Coarse Animal Hair excluding Wool Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Horsehair and Other Coarse Animal Hair excluding Wool Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Horsehair and Other Coarse Animal Hair excluding Wool: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Coarse

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Coarse

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This mature P. malariae schizont is contained within a normal sized RBC. The parasite contains 6-12 merozoites with large nuclei, and has a coarse, dark brown pigment. Credit: CDC.

Birch Island beach showing gradation of sediment from coarse pebbles to sand as one moves up from the shoreline. Seaweed is evident along "rack" line showing furthest extent of normal high tide. Wildflower seeds float in on algae and take root helping preserve sediment. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Commander William A. Glassford, Jr., ship's Commanding Officer and Commander Destroyer Division 32 (seated, center) with Chauncey's Officers and Chief Petty Officers, while she was at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 1919. Among those seated are (from left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas C. Macklin -- tentative identification; Lieutenant Allan P. Flagg; Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Ingraham, Executive Officer; Commander Glassford; unidentified Lieutenant; an Ensign (probably either Philip M. Fisher, Jr.; Walter A. Keller; or William R. Schimmeyer); and Gunner Joseph R. Ross -- tentative identification. Note the coarse canvas deck covering, and the supporting framework for the ship's foredeck awning. Credit: NAVY.

Production. Copper. Part of a group of five Symons short-head cone crushers for reducing the coarse copper ore to a smaller size at the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company where vast quantities of copper ore are treated. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Sounds Captioned with "Coarse".

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Hot rod; muscle car; engine; rev; revving; 8-cylinder; fast; drag racing; car racing; brash; brassy; brazen; chintzy; coarse; crass; crude; flamboyant; flashy; garish; gaudy; glaring; lurid; meretricious; obnoxious; obtrusive; ostentatious; raucous; rude.Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; 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; lout.
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Familiar Quotations: Coarse

AuthorQuotation

Confucius

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Lao Tse

With coarse food to eat, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow, happiness may still exist.

Thomas De Quincey

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

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Use in Literature: Coarse

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Vigorous, decided, with sentiments to a certain point, not coarse.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

On this public holiday, as on all other occasions, for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse grey cloth.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He would say coarse, obscene, and indecent things with an inexpressible tranquillity and coolness which was elegant.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Mr Dedalus uttered a guffaw of coarse scorn.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The man ran his fingers through his coarse, short, graying hair.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coarse

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Breast size and body fat decrease, the skin becomes coarse, the clitoris enlarges, and the voice deepens. (references)

Children with Hyper-IgE Syndrome may have recurrent pneumonias, lung abscesses and often have coarse features, an itchy rash, and skeletal abnormalities, including thin bones prone to repeated fractures. (references)

Various therapies to improve the features of chronic photodamage (scaliness, coarse and fine wrinkling, telangiectasis, and irregular pigmentation) including chemical peels, the topical use of 5-fluorouracil, alpha-hydroxy acids, and all-transretinoic acid have been tried. (references)

Business

According to the Air Quality Preservation Act, emission standards have been set for 26 substances including sulfur dioxide, SO2, NOX, coarse dust (TSP), offensive odors and so forth. (references)

Economic History

India

Agriculture (25% of GDP): Products--wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, sugar, cotton, jute, tea. (references)

Brazil

Traditionally a net coarse grain importer, Brazil emerged as a corn exporter in January 2001. However, northeastern Brazil continues to import due to the high internal freight costs. (references)

Barbados

Barbados is the eighth largest market in the Caribbean for U.S. agricultural products, importing a total of $62 million in CY 2000. In the bulk agricultural category ($13 million in 2000), the best opportunities for U.S. products are for soybeans, wheat, coarse grains and rice. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."

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Usage Frequency: Coarse

"Coarse" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coarse" is used about 640 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%64010,183

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Expressions: Coarse

Expressions using "coarse": coarse aggregate coarse bread coarse control coarse food coarse grain coarse grained coarse hemp fabric coarse language coarse metal coarse milling coarse mine coarse pitch coarse pitch stop coarse rice coarse texture coarse waste of animal hair uncarded or uncombed coarse animal hair yarn of coarse animal hair. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "coarse": coarse-bladed, coarse-boned, coarse-cut, coarse-featured, coarse-fishing, coarse-grained, coarse-graining, coarse-looking, coarse-minded, coarse-pelted, coarse-spun, coarse-stranded, coarse-textured, coarse-tongued, coarse-winded, coarse-woven.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coarse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translation: Coarse

Language Translations for "coarse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vulgar (banal, common, gross, low, low-lived, low-minded, raffish, ribald, tawdry, vulgar, vulgarian), pa cilësi, i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i rëndomtë (banal, base, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏غير مصقول (clumsiness, clumsy, inelegant, robust, unfinished, unpolished, unvarnished), ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏جلف (blunt, boorish, crude, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, rough, roughneck, rude, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil, uncouth), ‏أجش (coarsen, cracked, gravelly, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, raucous, rough, rusty, throaty), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

суров (austere, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), грапав (inelegant, irregular, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged, uneven), вулгарен (caddish, common, doggish, gross, gutter, loud, low, low-minded, raffish, raw, scurrilous, underbred, unedifying, vulgar), неучтив (discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, impolite, mannerless, uncivil, ungracious, unmannered, unmannerly), неизгладен (unpolished), недодялан (countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, uncouth, unfinished, unlicked, unrefined, wild and woolly, zizzi), едър (big, bouncing, burly, full, gross, husky, large, massive, massy, overblown, portly, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(rough, rude), (rough), , 粗糙, 粗劣 , (crude, rough, rude, thick, unfinished, vulgar), (sandals). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chatrný (broken, delicate, frail, jerry built, paltry, poorly, shoddy, unsound, weak), prostý (austere, chaste, frugal, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), obyèejný (average, common, common or garden, ordinary, pedestrian, unexceptional, usual), obhroublý, neotesaný (churlish, common, gross, ignorant, loutish, rugged, uncouth), nekultivovaný (low-browed, plebeian, uncultivated, uneducated, unrefined, vulgar), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), drsný (abrasive, broad, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ru (rough). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ruw (abusive, brute, crude, harsh, rough), grof (abusive, common, crude, everyday, harsh, raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought, vulgar), onkies (abusive, crude, harsh), lomp (abusive, crude, harsh, impolite, rag, rude, scrap). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malglata (rough), maleleganta (crude), maldelikata (crude, harsh). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Churlish, Clumsy, Crass, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Tough), زبر (Prickly, Ragged, Rough, Russet, Russeting, Scaly, Shaggy, Stark, Stubby), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), بی ادب (Barbaric, Brusque, Discourteous, Impolite, Indecorous, Irrespective, Irreverent, Lowbrow, Lowly, Plebeian, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Unmannered, Unmennerly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yksinkertainen (by single entry, naļve, plain, simple, simple-minded, single, straightforward, uncomplicated), vaatimaton (modest, simple, unassuming, unpretentious), tasapainoton (unbalanced), täyttävä, raskas (heavy, ponderous, weighty). (various references)

   

French

  

vulgaire (common, commonplace), grossier (coarse-grained), rude, gros grain (coarse-grained). (various references)

   

German

  

grob (abrupt, abusive, blunt, bluntly, bold, boorish, broad, broadly, coarsely, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, glaring, gross, gruffly, harsh, heavy, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, rugged, tough, truculently, uncouth, unsubtle), grobkörnig (coarse grained, gritty). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χονδροειδής (blatant, crude). (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

gwo (coarse-grained). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

(bulky, clumsy, crude, impolite, indelicate, lubricious, rough, rude). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vastag (bold, corpulent, crass, dense, fat, gross, monumental ignorance, podgy, stiff, thick, to be in the chips), rücskös (rugged), közönséges (base, common, commonplace, dismal, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, pig, plebeian, scummy, scurvied, trite, vulgar, wonted), goromba (bouncy, brusque, chuff, churlish, crude, foulmouthed, graceless, gross, hirsute, rough, rude, ruffianly, surly), durva (barbaric, broad, brusque, brutal, caddish, churlish, coarsened, crass, crude, gross, harsh, hirsute, impious, insensible, offensive, ragged, ramage, Randy, robustic, rough, rude, scraggly, scraggy, scurrilous, stogy, uncouth), érdes (choppy, cragged, harsh, hirsute, hoarse, muddy, ragged, raspy, rough, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scrapy, scratchy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

campa, serabutan (fibrous, mixed, run in confusion), gerutu (rough), gersang (arid, barren, dry). (various references)

   

Italian

  

grossolano (chubby, common, crass, dirty, earthy, gross, lowbrow, ungraceful), grezzo (crude, raw, rough, rude, ruffianly, rustic, unwrought). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

粗悪 (crude, inferior), 粗い (rough). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そざつ (crude, rough), そりゃく (crude, rough), そあく (crude, inferior), ひぞく (bandit, lineal descendants, rebel, vulgar, vulgarism, vulgarity), めのあらい, あらい (rough, rude, wild), 'び (vulgar), ていじ'" (low level, vulgar). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

조악한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuveein (indocile), garroo (boisterous, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

grov (gross, gruff). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oarsecay

   

Portuguese

  

grosseiro (a.b.c., abc, awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earwax, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hogmanay, home-made, ill mannered, ill-conceived, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vulgar (base, broad, churlish, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vile, vulgar, vulgarly), trivial (common, foul, licentious, low-lived, peddling, trite, vulgar, vulgarly), ordinar (boorish, caddish, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, regular, rough, slavish, trivial, unrefined, usual, vulgar), nemanierat (mannerless), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), mojicesc (boorish, churlish, clownish, rude), inferior (base, below the mark, bottom, feeble, inferior, less, lesser, lower, mean, Nether, penny-a-line, second, subordinate, under), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, thick, voluminous), grobian (bear, boorish, brutal, brute, uncivil, uncouth), de proastã calitate, brut (crude, earthy, gross, raw, rough, sheer, undigested), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

garbh (harsh, hoarse, rough). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sirov (crude, gothic, raw, rude, underdone), prost (common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar), ogrubeo (coarsened, rough), hrapav (cracked, harsh, husky, ragged, rasping, raucous, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggy), grub (boorish, brusque, bumptious, crude, harsh, indelicate, lowbrow, rough, rough and ready, rough and tumble). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

áspero (abrupt, acid, brusque, crotchety, disagreeable, grating, hackly, hard, harsh, jagged, rasping, rough, rugged, scraggy, severe, sharp, sour, strict, tart, unpolished), desigual (bumpy, different, inequable, irregular, one sided, rough, unequal, uneven), tosco (boorish, clumsy, crude, earthy, hulking, raw, rough, rude, rugged, uncouth), grueso (bold, corpulent, fat, fatty, full, greasy, gross, heavy, hulking, thick, thickness), grosero (boorish, bounder, churl, crass, double chin, earthy, foulmouthed, gross, impolite, lower, nasty, ripe, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, ruffian, scurrilous, uncouth, unpleasant, unsubtle), basto (crude). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grov (bearish, big, boeotian, coarse grained, crass, crude, earthy, fulsome, gross, heavy, inelegant, large, rank, raw, rough, rough spoken, rude, thick), sträv (abrasive, bristly, gruff, harsh, rough, scabrous), plump (blot, earthy, indelicate, ribald, scurrilous, vulgar). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หยาบช้า (gross, lowbred), ขา"รสนิยม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yontulmamış (barbarous, bearish, brutal, clodhopping, clownish, coarse grained, craggy, hobnailed, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, shaggy, uncut), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), kalitesiz (cheap, cheap and nasty, cheap jack, hand-me-down, inferior, of poor quality, offgrade, ornery, punk, ropy, shoddy, sleazy, third class, third rate), kalın (dense, grave, stout, thick), kaba saba (clownish, common, gauche, rank, robust, robustious, rough, rude), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), iri taneli (coarse grained, large-grained), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

harsal (crude, gross). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шершавий (granulated, husky, scabrous, shaggy), крупнозернистий (coarse grained), крупний (big), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), вульгарний (banal, blatant, caddish, gross, low, low down, non-u, parvenu, raffish, unladylike, vapid, vulgar, vulgarian), неввічливий (ill mannered, impolite, non-conventional, rude, uncivil, ungracious), необроблений (crude, natural, nontreated, raw, rough, uncultivated, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, waste, wild), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), зашкарублий. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

to sợi, thô thô lỗ, tục tĩu (foul, gross, grossly, naughty, obscene, ribald, salacious, scurrilous), lỗ mãng thô tục, không mịn, kém (less, low, poor, third-rate, vile). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

garw (bluff, rough), bras (broad, fat, luxuriant, rich). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Coarse

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

dabin. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

grossior, grossiora, grossis, grossos, rudis. (various references)

Old French900-1400

gros. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

brut. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coarse

Derivations

Words beginning with "coarse": coarsely, coarsen, coarsened, coarseness, coarsenesses, coarsening, coarsens, coarser, coarsest. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coarse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boarse, cacares, caorse, Carsa, coarce, coarns, coarsa, coarsed, coarses, coarsse, coase, coasse, cocarel, coeres, coerse, coires, Colarossi, cooorwee, corsa, corse, Ocasek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coarse"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "coarse" (pronounced kô"rs)
4k ô" r scorse, course, midcourse.
3-ô" r sbourse, divorce, endorse, enforce, force, hoarse, horse, Morse, perforce, reinforce, remorse, source.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Coarse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s"

-1 letter: acres, arose, cares, carse, ceros, cores, corse, escar, ocrea, orcas, races, scare, score, serac.

-2 letters: aces, acre, aero, arco, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, cero, core, cors, ears, eras, eros, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, ores, osar, race, rase, recs, rocs, roes, rose, scar, sear, sera, soar, sora, sore.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: acerose, acerous, boraces, cargoes, carouse, choreas, claroes, coalers, coarsen, coarser, coaster, coaters, coaxers, corneas, corsage, escolar, narcose, oraches, oracles, recoals, roaches, scoriae, socager, solacer.

 

+2 letters: acerolas, acrogens, acrosome, aerobics, alfresco, ancestor, araceous, braceros, broaches, brocades, cabestro, cabresto, cajolers, calories, caloyers, capsomer, carioles, caroches, carolers, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, casework, caseworm, choleras, chorales, coachers, coarsely, coarsens, coarsest, coasters, comakers, compares, comrades, copperas, coracles, cordages, corkages, corrades, corsages, courages, cramboes, creators, croakers, earlocks, ectosarc, enactors, endosarc, escargot, escarole, escolars, exactors, exocarps, forecast, horsecar, idocrase, lacrosse, locaters, mesocarp, nacreous, narcoses, outraces, overacts, overcast, poachers, postrace, racemose, racemous, reactors, redcoats, romances, scariose, scenario, scleroma, scorepad, sectoral, socagers, solacers, sycamore, thoraces, varicose.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coarse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 61 72 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-    .-.    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100001 01110010 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0061 0072 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378167848571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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