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| Main Entry: | unrefined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar |
| Synonyms: | coarse, crude, rude, uncouth, unpolished |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, swinish, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, bucolic, countrified, homey, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, Arcadian, agrestic, campestral, georgic, out-country, outland |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | asinine, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless, Philistine, blundering, doltish, lowbrow |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | discourteous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, impolite |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, boorish, brusque, cavalier, cheeky*, churlish, crude, crusty*, curt, disrespectful, flip, fresh, ill-mannered, impertinent, indelicate, insolent, oafish, offhand, rustic, sassy, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, bad-mannered, contumelious, ill-bred, inaffable, inurbane, smart-alecky, ungenteel |
| Antonyms: | civil, courteous, gracious, mannered, polite, refined, respectful, well-bred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | earthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, coarse, crude, down, down-to-earth*, dull, easygoing, folksy, funky*, hard-boiled*, homely, homey, indelicate, lusty, mundane, natural, pragmatic, ribald, robust, rough, simple, uninhibited, unrefined, down home, home folk, lowbred, unidealistic |
| Antonyms: | cultured, elegant, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homespun |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spun from home |
| Synonyms: | crude, handmade, homemade, ordinary, plain, rough, rustic, simple, unrefined, unsophisticated, handcrafted |
| Main Entry: | ill-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | badly behaved |
| Synonyms: | boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck*, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-bred, loud-mouthed |
| Antonyms: | mannered, mannerly, polite, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impolite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having bad manners |
| Synonyms: | boorish, churlish, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, ill-mannered, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, irritable, loutish, moody, oafish, rough, rude, sullen, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, bad-mannered, disgracious, ill-bred, unmannered |
| Antonyms: | courteous, mannerly, polite |
| Main Entry: | impure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not clean mentally, physically; mixed |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, carnal, coarse, common, corrupt, debased, defiled, diluted, dirty, filthy, foul, gross*, grubby*, immodest, immoral, indecent, lewd, nasty, obscene, smutty*, squalid, tainted, unclean, unrefined, unwholesome, vile, wicked, admixed, alloyed, contaminated, desecrated, doctored, infected, not pure, polluted, profaned, sullied, unchaste, vitiated, weighted |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, impeccable, pure, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inelegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, crude |
| Synonyms: | awkward, coarse, crass, gauche, graceless, gross, indelicate, labored, oafish, raw, rough, rude, stiff*, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wooden* |
| Antonyms: | elegant, glamorous, graceful, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, dense, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, doltish, ill-bred, swinish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lowbrowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncultivated, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unrefined, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, unlettered, unread, untutored |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base, lower-class |
| Synonyms: | banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowly, mean, ordinary, pedestrian, popular, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, vulgar, lowborn, proletarian, unwashed, working-class |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, noble, rich, wealthy, upper-class |
| Main Entry: | risqué |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper, referring to sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, bawdy*, blue*, breezy, crude, daring, dirty, earthy, erotic, filthy*, foul, gross*, hot*, immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, lewd, lurid, naughty, obscene, off-color, offensive, provocative, purple*, racy, raw, ribald, salacious, salty, shady, smart, smutty, spicy*, suggestive, unrefined, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked, amoral, off-base, out-of-line, sizzling |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, decent, moral, proper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncivil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, barbaric, blunt, boorish, coarse, curt, discourteous, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, inconsiderate, insulting, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unfriendly, ungentlemanly, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, mannerless |
| Main Entry: | uncivilized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild, uncultured |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, gross, impertinent, impolite, loutish, outrageous, primitive, rude, rugged, savage, unconscionable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncultivated, uneducated, ungodly, unholy, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, vulgar, wicked, brutish, ill-bred, mannerless, philistine, unmannered |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, domesticated, polished, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | uncouth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, uncultivated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy-handed, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, loud, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough, rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for*, uncivil, uncivilized, ungainly, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, vulgar, clownish, disgracious, ill-bred, loud-mouthed, ungenteel |
| Antonyms: | agile, polished, refined, sophisticated, couth, cultivated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uneducated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking knowledge |
| Synonyms: | empty-headed, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, uncultivated, uncultured, unlearned, unrefined, unschooled, untaught, benighted, inerudite, know-nothing, lowbrow, uninstructed, unlettered, unread, untutored |
| Antonyms: | educated, intelligent, learned, lettered, taught |
| Main Entry: | unfinished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, fragmentary, half-baked*, immature, imperfect, incomplete, lacking, natural, plain, raw, rough, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unadorned, undeveloped, undone, unpolished, unrefined, wanting, dabbling, found wanting, half-done, in the making, in the rough, not done, roughhewn, unaccomplished, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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