coarse
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coarse/kɔːs/
▶adjective
- 1 rough or harsh in texture; unrefined.
■ consisting of large grains or particles: a coarse white powder.
- 2 (of a person's features) not elegantly formed or proportioned.
- 3 rude or vulgar.
- 4 Brit. relating to the sport of angling for coarse fish.
– derivatives
coarsely adverb,
coarseness noun,
coarsish adjective.
coarsely adverb,
coarseness noun,
coarsish adjective.
'coarse' also found in these Oxford entries:
arkose
- bafta
- ballast
- barley
- beargrass
- black bread
- blowsy
- boisterous
- bracken
- brake
- broad
- brogan
- buckram
- buckshot
- bulrush
- burl
- burlap
- canvas
- clod
- coarse fish
- coarsen
- conglomerate
- cordgrass
- corncrake
- couch
- crash
- crass
- crude
- Cumberland sausage
- dandy brush
- dillybag
- diorite
- dock
- drill
- drugget
- duffel
- dungaree
- dunite
- dura mater
- esparto
- farmyard
- fishwife
- four-letter word
- frieze
- gabbro
- game fish
- gneiss
- granita
- granodiorite
