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coarse
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- pronunciation:
- kors
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
coarser, coarsest |
| definition 1: |
If something is coarse, it is rough instead of smooth, or it is made up of somewhat large bits instead of tiny, fine bits. Salt, for example, can be coarse or fine. The salt you eat on your food is pretty fine, but salt that they use on icy roads in the winter is much more coarse.
The sand on this beach is coarse. It doesn't feel really nice when you walk on it barefoot. It's not fine and soft like on the other beach.These sheets are not very soft. The material is very coarse.- synonyms:
- rough
- antonyms:
- fine, smooth
- similar words:
- bumpy, prickly, scratchy, uneven
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| definition 2: |
If someone calls another person coarse, they mean that this person does not know how to act correctly or politely, or that they are just rude.
Mr. Brown was a kind man, but his manners were coarse. He made a lot of noise with his mouth whenever he ate, and he always scraped his knife and fork against the plate.Some guests did not like the host's coarse jokes and thought he was very impolite.- synonyms:
- crude, rude
- antonyms:
- delicate
- similar words:
- dirty, low, rough
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| related words: |
crude, foul, rude |
| derivations: |
coarsely (adv.), coarseness (n.) |
Are you looking for the word course? Coarse and course sound alike but have different meanings.
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