coarse adj

1 of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" [ant: fine]

2 lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]

3 of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: common]

4 conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]

English

Pronunciation

• kô(r)s, /kɔː(r)s/, /kO:(r)s/
• course
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s

Etymology

cors (adjectival use of cours)

Adjective

1. Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture.
2. Not refined.

   coarse manners

   coarse language

Synonyms

• (of inferior quality): thick, rough, sharp, hard
• (not refined): rough, rude, uncouth, blunt, unpolished, inelegant, indelicate, vulgar, gritty

Antonyms

• (of inferior quality): fine

Derived terms

• coarsely
• coarseness

Translations

Coarse may refer to:

• Bosnian Coarse Haired Hound, developed by 19th century Bosnian hunters as a scent hound.
• Coarse bubble diffusers, produce 1/4 to 1/2 inch bubbles which rise rapidly from the floor of a wastewater treatment plant or sewage treatment plant tank.
• Coarse fishing, an angling method, mostly popular throughout Europe.
• Coarse sandpaper, a form of paper where an abrasive material has been fixed to its surface, allowing rapid removal of material by rubbing.
• Coarse structure, on a set X is a collection of subsets of the cartesian product X × X with certain. properties which allow the large-scale structure of metric spaces and topological spaces to be defined. Used in the mathematical fields of geometry and topology.
• Coarse woody debris (CWD), a term used for the dead trees left standing or fallen, including branches on the ground.
• Styrian Coarse Haired Hound, a rough coated, hardy hunting dog used by Austrians and Slovenians to hunt Wild Boar.
• Coarse grain

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