| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | savage; vulgar |
Synonyms: |
abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, ferine, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, piggish, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, swinish, unclean, vile |
Antonyms: |
good, kind, nice, superior |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
Synonyms: |
bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | brutal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, rough |
Synonyms: |
animal, bearish, beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, feral, ferine, inhuman, inhumane, rude, savage, swinish, unfeeling |
Antonyms: |
gentle, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong; animal-like |
Synonyms: |
animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, ferine, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, swinish, unthinking |
Antonyms: |
gentle, mild, weak |
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, currish, degenerate, despisable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, low-down, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sad, scummy, scurvy, shabby, sordid, sorry*, swinish, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
Antonyms: |
admirable, admired, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, eager, ensurient, envious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, hogging, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, swinish, voracious, yearning |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, generous, giving |
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
Antonyms: |
abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
Synonyms: |
bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, dense, doltish, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
| Main Entry: | piggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |