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单词 coarse
释义 coarse
\ˈkō(ə)rs, -ȯ(ə)rs, -ōəs, -ȯ(ə)s\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English cors, corse common, from cors, corse, n., customary sequence of events — more at course
1. : of ordinary or inferior quality or value : common, base
 < of what coarse metal ye are molded — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. : composed of relatively large parts or particles
  < coarse sand >
  : loose or rough in texture
  < coarse skin >
  < the Southern textile industry developed first in … coarse goods; the North went in for medium and fine grade yarns — American Guide Series: Rhode Island >
 b. : of crude, unskilled, or careless workmanship or design : roughly or crudely formed : without delicacy or grace of feature
  < coarse imitations, completely lacking in the original delicacy >
  < a coarse heavy face, loose-featured, red and sensual — Thomas Wolfe >
 c. of paper : of a grade suitable for wrapping or industrial use
 d. : adjusted, set, or designed for heavy, fast, or less delicate work
  < a coarse saw with large teeth >
  < a high-speed milling cutter with coarse pitch >
 e. : not precise or detailed with respect to adjustment, classification, discrimination : roughly approximate
  < to fill in the details of the rather coarse picture obtained by the earlier studies >
  < one dial for coarse adjustment, one for fine >
 f. medicine, of a tremor : of wide excursion
  < a coarse tremor of the extremities >
3.
 a. : crude or unrefined in taste, manners, or sensibilities : without cultivation of taste, politeness or civility of manner, or delicacy of feeling
  < many of the muckraking novels … were simple parables of the coarse businessman and the sensitive intellectual — Bernard De Voto >
 b. : crude and indelicate of language or idea especially with violation of social taboos on language : obscene, profane
4.
 a. dialect, of the weather : rough, stormy
 b. dialect Britain, of persons or circumstances : brutal, harsh
5. : harsh, raucous, or rough in tone : not melodious or mellow
 < the coarse jangling of ordinary bells — G.B.Shaw >
— used also of certain sounds heard in auscultation in pathological states of the chest
 < coarse rales >
Synonyms:
 vulgar, gross, obscene, ribald: coarse suggests unrefined crudeness, indelicacy, or robust roughness
  < he was forever making eyes at me — a coarse, puffy-faced, red-moustached young man, with his hair plastered down on each side of his forehead. I thought he was perfectly hateful … — A. Conan Doyle >
  < the landlady who had tyrannized over her when ill-humoured and unpaid, or when pleased had treated her with a coarse familiarity scarcely less odious — W.M.Thackeray >
  In this sense, vulgar, a stronger term, describes what offends good taste or decency and may suggest boorishness
  < his passion for physical luxury nakedly revealed itself as simply the vulgar longing of the idle rich for conspicuous waste — Granville Hicks >
  < her father is a … vulgar person, mean in his ideals and obtuse in his manners — John Erskine †1951 >
  < it was, in fact, the mouth that gave his face its sensual, sly, and ugly look, for a loose and vulgar smile seemed constantly to hover about its thick coarse edges — Thomas Wolfe >
  gross stresses crude animal inclinations and lack of refinement
  < merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety — Aldous Huxley >
  < Clif Clawson, at forty, was gross. His face was sweaty, and puffy with pale flesh; his voice was raw; he fancied checked Norfolk jackets, tight across his swollen shoulders and his beefy hips — Sinclair Lewis >
  < a spirituelle amoureuse, she is repelled by the gross or the voluptuary — S.N.Behrman >
  obscene is the strongest of this group in stressing impropriety, indecency, or nastiness
  < it was, of course, easy to pick out a line here and there … which was frank to indecency, yet certainly not obscene — H.S.Canby >
  < his innate belief that human flesh is in some way obscene. In the old days artists … had painted decently and had draped their figures — Ellen Glasgow >
  < there are depths beneath depths in what happened last night — obscure fetid chambers of the human soul. Black hatreds, unnatural desires, hideous impulses, obscene ambitions are at the bottom of it — W.H.Wright >
  ribald suggests rough merriment or crude humor at the irreverent, scurrilous, or vulgar
  < they had their backs to him, shaking wih the loose laughter which punctuates a ribald description — Mary Austin >
  < a ribald folksong about fleas in the straw — J.L.Lowes >
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