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Definition: Coarse |
CoarseAdjective1. 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) |
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Food & Agriculture | Term applied to poorly balanced wines lacking quality. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CoarseSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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). |
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Crosswords: Coarse |
| Specialty definitions using "coarse": coarse control, coarse grain, coarse sand, coarse waste of animal hair ♦ yarn of coarse animal hair. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "coarse": Boistous ♦ Cogman ♦ Dungaree ♦ mandil, mohair ♦ Pea-jacket ♦ Skilts. (references) |
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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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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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| 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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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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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. |
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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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 640 | 10,183 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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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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| 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 | 麤 (rough, rude), 糙 (rough), 糲 , 粗糙, 粗劣 , 粗 (crude, rough, rude, thick, unfinished, vulgar), 屝 (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 | 'ס (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 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) 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) 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) garbh (harsh, hoarse, rough). (various references) 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) 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) 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) หยาบช้า (gross, lowbred), ขา"รสนิยม. (various references) 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) harsal (crude, gross). (various references) 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) 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) garw (bluff, rough), bras (broad, fat, luxuriant, rich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dabin. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | grossior, grossiora, grossis, grossos, rudis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | gros. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | brut. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coarse": coarsely, coarsen, coarsened, coarseness, coarsenesses, coarsening, coarsens, coarser, coarsest. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coarse" (pronounced kô"rs) |
| 4 | k ô" r s | corse, course, midcourse. |
| 3 | -ô" r s | bourse, divorce, endorse, enforce, force, hoarse, horse, Morse, perforce, reinforce, remorse, source. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 61 72 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .- .-. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100001 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o a r s e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378167848571 |
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