Synonyms and Antonyms of coarse
1
made up of large particles
- coarse rock salt was sprinkled on the icy walkway
unfiltered, unrefined
earthy, gravelly, gritty, sandy
pebbly, rocky, stony (also stoney)
coarse-grained, cracked, kibbled, lumpy, mealy
buttery, smooth, velvety
filtered, levigated, refined
close-grained, comminuted, ground, micronized, milled, mulled, pestled, pulverized, reduced, triturated
2
lacking in refinement or good taste
- the hockey player's coarse manners turned his date off completely
common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, loutish, ungentlemanly
clumsy, lubberly, lumpish, oafish
inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, thoughtless
countrified (also countryfied), provincial, rustic (also rustical), unsophisticated
graceless, inelegant, tacky
animallike, barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized
mannerless, unmannered, unmannerly
3
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
- offended by the coarse humor at the celebrity roast
bawdy, blue, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-rated
broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive
barnyard, earthy, scatological
