ADJECTIVE coarse COMPARATIVE coarser SUPERLATIVE coarsest

coarse English

Meaning coarse meaning

What does coarse mean?

Definitions in simple English

coarse Adjective

— When an object is coarse, it is rough and not smooth. I prefer to season with fine salt instead of coarse salt because it mixes more easily.

— If a person is coarse, they are not refined or do not have tact. Why do you use such coarse language? It makes it seem as you have no manners at all.

coarse

— adjective of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles coarse meal coarse sand a coarse weave

— adjective (= common, uncouth, vulgar) 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

— adjective (= common) of low or inferior quality or value of what coarse metal ye are molded — Shakespeare produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population

Synonyms coarse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as coarse?

coarse English » English

rough

rude

crude

vulgar

harsh

thick

unrefined

gross

raw

impolite

uncouth

rugged

boorish

uncivil

common

obscene

clumsy

churlish

abrupt

old

low

hard

abrasive

unpolished

uncultured

tough

rough-cut

ragged

indelicate

indecent

disorderly

crass

coarse-grained

caddish

big

unwrought

unworked

unmannerly

uneducated

tasteless

stubborn

scurrilous

scabrous

robust

raucous

rash

lumpy

lowbred

loutish

large

Topics coarse topics

What do people use coarse to talk about?

Person Body

Hair

• What words describe types of hair?
  kinky curl curly wavy straight coarse fine thick thin

Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity

• What words describe speech or actions that are obscene?
  obscene coarse crude dirty filthy improper indecent lewd naughty profane risqué rude saucy suggestive vulgar

Work and occupation Occupation Working with cloth

Cloth

• What words describe cloth?
  soft coarse

Examples coarse examples

How do I use coarse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Semisolid snow that will barely hold a person, coarse snow with a hard, rugged crust and light, fluffy lying snow. There are Sami words for these and hundreds more types of snow.

Soft wool is more expensive than coarse wool and both are superior to synthetics made of nylon.

Her dress was made of coarse wool.

Her skin is coarse from years of working outdoors.

Movie subtitles

And as for that linen on the beds, it's so coarse, I scratched all night.

You're coarse and you're conceited.

I will not tolerate hearing my mother's name on your coarse tongue.

I'm not scared of your big horns, your coarse hair your cloven hooves, your monkey claws or bat's wings.

He's too coarse for her.

Coarse, burnt, and most delicious meal of my life.

Coarse language don't seem called for.

Ordinary common or coarse common?

And coarse. Well, I really must go.

Oh, let's face it darling, he was a brute, a coarse brute!

Coarse and stupid.

Her nightgown is made of coarse linen.

Coarse, lustful. barbaric.

Coarse, vulgar, stupid thing.

All evening long, I thought you coarse and loud and not a gentleman.

It's too coarse.

That is a very coarse expression coming from so smartly dressed a young woman.

Bill's beard is just as coarse.

Think of these unfortunates, every day at dawn, sweeping debris into the gutter with coarse broomsticks.

And coarse.

Pretzlav at the end is now concluding some coarse joke. Other men appear to be quite unconcerned and relaxed.

Don't be coarse.

To me she was coarse, simple, ugly, stupid. and to the others she was refined.elegant. beautiful.intelligent.

But they're mostly coarse common girls.

Buy coarse rye bread, then.

It happens sometimes that youth does not pass as you have imagined in your tender years and life proves to be coarse and low like a bass key.

You're a coarse man!

The coarse hand that touches your breast would leave an indelible fingerprint.

Coarse, dark hair.

There'd have been what they call coarse fish, bass, perch, bream, carp, even pike.

You are so stupid, so coarse, so rogue!

News and current affairs

The moral society, based on decent self-interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self-regard.