单词 | coarse |
释义 | coarse (once / 255 pages) adj Coarse can mean rough to the touch or vulgar. It's good to have coarse sand paper, but not good to have coarse manners. Do you lick your dinner plate, wipe your nose on your sleeve, and generally behave like an oaf? No, of course not. You're the kind of person who reads online dictionaries. But if you did do any of things, you'd be coarse — that is, unrefined, boorish, and downright vulgar. Coarse can apply to a wide variety of things other than behavior. If something is of poor quality, cheap and inferior, it's considered coarse. WORD FAMILYcoarse: coarsely, coarsen, coarseness, coarser, coarsest+/coarsen: coarsened, coarsening, coarsens/coarseness: coarsenesses USAGE EXAMPLESContains coarse language, nudity, violence and crude humor. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) Contains some mature thematic elements and brief coarse language. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) The school was a laboratory of progressive educational ideas, with corporal punishment strictly prohibited — even though the students were unruly, noisy and coarse. Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) 1adj of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles coarse meal coarse sand a coarse weave Syn|Ant harsh coarse-grained, large-grained not having a fine texture coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealycomposed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency granulatedmade grainy or formed into granules plush-like, plushy(of textures) resembling plush loose, open(of textures) full of small openings or gaps rough, unsmoothhaving or caused by an irregular surface fine of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles close, tightof textiles close-grained, fine-graineddense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells dustlikeas fine and powdery as dust flouryresembling flour in fine powdery texture nongranularnot having granules fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grainedconsisting of fine particles smallhave fine or very small constituent particles superfineof extremely fine size or texture smoothhaving a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities 2adj lacking refinement or cultivation or taste he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind Syn common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth 3adj of low or inferior quality or value "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare Syn common inferior of low or inferior quality |
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