Coarse

3 definitions found

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

  Coarse \Coarse\ (k[=o]rs), a. [Compar. {Coarser}
     (k[=o]rs"[~e]r); superl. {Coarsest}.] [As this word was
     anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation
     of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and
     hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude,
     rough, gross, e. g., "Though the threads be course."


     --Gascoigne. See {Course}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of
        inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or
        close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to
        {fine}; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth;
        coarse bread.
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     2. Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate;
        as, coarse manners; coarse language.
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              I feel
              Of what coarse metal ye are molded.   --Shak.
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              To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful
              expressions.                          --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Large; thick; rough; gross; blunt; uncouth; unpolished;
          inelegant; indelicate; vulgar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  268 Moby Thesaurus words for "coarse":
     Adamic, Circean, Doric, Mickey Mouse, acerb, acerbic, acrid,
     amaroidal, animal, animalistic, arrested, astringent, backward,
     barbaric, barbarous, base, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial,
     bitter, bitter as gall, blustering, blustery, bodily, boorish,
     brassy, brazen, bristly, broad, broad-bodied, broken, brutal,
     brute, brutish, bulky, bullnecked, bumpy, cacophonous, caddish,
     caked, cakey, carnal, carnal-minded, caustic, cheap, cheesy,
     choked, choppy, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, corpulent,
     corrugated, cracked, crass, croaking, croaky, cross-grained, crude,
     dense, dirty, doggerel, dry, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic,
     fallen, fat, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, fourth-class,
     frank, full, full-bodied, furious, gaudy, graceless, grained,
     grainy, granular, granulated, gritty, gross, gruff, gutter,
     guttural, hard, harsh, harsh-sounding, heavy, heavyset, hoarse,
     homespun, horripilant, husky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite,
     improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough,
     inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent,
     indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, inequal, inexpert, infelicitous,
     inferior, insensitive, irregular, jolty, kitschy, lapsed,
     lascivious, lewd, linsey-woolsey, loud, loutish, louty, low,
     low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpy, massive,
     material, materialistic, mean, meretricious, metallic, nasty,
     nonspiritual, obscene, offensive, orgiastic, outlandish,
     oversimple, paltry, physical, pimply, pitted, pocky, poor,
     postlapsarian, potholed, prentice, prickly, pungent, punk, raffish,
     ragged, raging, rank, raucid, raucous, raunchy, raw,
     reductionistic, reductive, ribald, ripply, rough, rough-cast,
     rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughhewn, roughneck, roupy,
     rowdy, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty,
     scatological, scratchy, second-best, second-class, second-rate,
     seedy, shabby, shagged, shaggy, sharp, shoddy, simplistic, smutty,
     sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stormy, strangled, stunted,
     swinish, tacky, tactless, tart, tasteless, tawdry, tempestuous,
     textured, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, third-class, third-rate,
     three-dimensional, throaty, tinny, trashy, turbulent, unblown,
     uncivil, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
     underdeveloped, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven,
     unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfinished, unformed,
     ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unhewn, unkempt,
     unlabored, unladylike, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed,
     unrefined, unseemly, unsmooth, unsolicitous, unspiritual,
     untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, viscous, vulgar,
     vulgarian, wimpled