coarse
US: /ˈkɔɹs/
UK: /kˈɔːs/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
coarse /kɔ:s/- tính từ
- kém, tồi tàn (đồ ăn...)
- to cánh, to sợi, không mịn, thô
- coarse sand: cát thô
- thô lỗ, lỗ mãng
- coarse manners: cử chỉ lỗ mãng
- thô tục, tục tĩu
- coarse words: lời lẽ thô tục
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective (coarser, coarsest)1 (of skin or fabric) rough; not soft: coarse hands / linen
2 consisting of relatively large pieces; not fine: coarse sand / salt / hair
3 rude and offensive, especially about sex
Synonym: VULGAR
coarse manners / laughter
coarsely adverb: coarsely chopped onions (= cut into large pieces) + He laughed coarsely at her embarrassment.
coarseness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 rough, uneven, scratchy, prickly, bristly; crude, rough-hewn, unfinished, unrefined:
He has a three-day coarse growth of beard. The surface on the furniture is still too coarse.
2 rude, boorish, loutish, crude, ill-mannered, unpolished, rough, uncouth, impolite, uncivil, unrefined:
Nigel's behaviour is coarse, and he spits when he talks.
3 rude, indecent, improper, indelicate, obscene, lewd, vulgar, gross, smutty, dirty, filthy, foul, offensive, lascivious, ribald, bawdy; foul-mouthed:
Don't use that kind of coarse language with me.
4 inferior, low-quality, second-rate, shoddy, tawdry, trashy; kitschy:
That shop stocks only the coarsest merchandise.
Concise dictionary
coarser|coarsestkɔːsadj.
+of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
+lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
+of low or inferior quality or value
+conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
