Boorish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boorish \Boor"ish\, a.
     Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. --
     {Boor"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Boor"ish*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion.


                                                    --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boorish
       adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
             appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
             manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
             "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
              {loutish}, {neanderthal}, {neandertal}, {oafish}, {swinish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "boorish":
     all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded,
     blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish,
     careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish,
     clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born,
     country-bred, crude, cumbersome, farmerish, fingers all thumbs,
     from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless,
     ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky,
     hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered,
     impolite, inconsiderate, inelegant, insensitive, inurbane,
     left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, loutish, louty, lowbred,
     lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish,
     offensive, outlandish, ponderous, provincial, raffish, robustious,
     roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic,
     sloppy, stiff, tactless, tasteless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth,
     uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel,
     ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unhandy,
     unladylike, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous,
     unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, yokel, yokelish