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coarse

lacking delicacy or refinement; crude; harsh; rough; boorish; gross: His language was coarse and unsuitable for children to hear.

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course – route or path; progress; duration; a way of behaving: She chose the wisest course.

coarse

(kôrs)

adj. coars·er, coars·est

1. Of low, common, or inferior quality.

a. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: coarse manners.

b. Vulgar or indecent: coarse language.

3. Consisting of large particles; not fine in texture: coarse sand.

4. Rough, especially to the touch: a coarse tweed.

[Middle English cors, probably from course, custom; see course.]

coarse′ly adv.

coarse′ness n.

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coarse

(kɔːs)

adj

1. rough in texture, structure, etc; not fine: coarse sand.

2. lacking refinement or taste; indelicate; vulgar: coarse jokes.

3. of inferior quality; not pure or choice

4. (Metallurgy) (of a metal) not refined

5. (Mechanical Engineering) (of a screw) having widely spaced threads

[C14: of unknown origin]

ˈcoarsely adv

ˈcoarseness n

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coarse

(kɔrs, koʊrs)

adj. coars•er, coars•est.

1. composed of relatively large parts or particles: coarse sand.

2. lacking in fineness or delicacy of texture, structure, etc.: coarse fabric.

3. harsh; grating.

4. lacking refinement; unpolished: coarse manners.

5. vulgar; obscene: coarse language.

6. (of metals) unrefined.

7. (of a metal file) having the maximum commercial grade of coarseness.

[1550–60; earlier cors(e), course, cowarce]

coarse′ly, adv.

coarse′ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	coarse - of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" harsh rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" fine - of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"
	2.	coarse - 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" rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar, common unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
	3.	coarse - of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" common inferior - of low or inferior quality

coarse

adjective

1. rough, crude, unfinished, homespun, impure, unrefined, rough-hewn, unprocessed, unpolished, coarse-grained, unpurified He wore a shepherd's tunic of coarse cloth. a tablespoon of coarse sea salt
rough soft, polished, smooth, refined, purified, fine-grained

2. vulgar, offensive, rude, indecent, improper, raunchy (slang), earthy, foul-mouthed, bawdy, impure, smutty, impolite, ribald, immodest, indelicate He has a very coarse sense of humour.

3. loutish, rough, brutish, boorish, uncivil They don't know how to behave, and are coarse and insulting.
loutish fine, cultured, polished, sophisticated, proper, pleasant, refined, polite, civilized, genteel, urbane, well-bred, inoffensive, well-mannered

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coarse

adjective

1. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:

barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar.

2. Offensive to accepted standards of decency:

barnyard, bawdy, broad, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar.

Slang: raunchy.

3. Consisting of or covered with large particles:

grainy, granular, gritty, rough.

4. Having a surface that is not smooth:

cragged, craggy, harsh, ironbound, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged, scabrous, uneven.

Translations

خَشِن، فَظ، بَذيءسَميكفَظّ

hrubýsprostýsurovýdrsný

grov

grob ungeschliffen derb

τραχύς χοντρός

áspero basto grosero grueso tosco

karkea

grossier brut brute rustique vulgaire

גסגסהנחותה

grub

durva

grófurklúr; ruddalegur

grezzo grossolana grossolano rozzo rude

きめの粗い粗い

거친

grubiaigrubumaspadaryti grubųpadaryti šiurkštųpasidaryti grubiam

neapstrādātspiedauzīgsraupjšrupjšvulgārs

grosiergrosiera

грубый крупный сермяга

grobraskav

grov

อย่างหยาบ

kabaterbiyesiz

thô

粗糙的粗俗的

coarse

[kɔːs]

A. ADJ (coarser (compar) (coarsest (superl)))

1. (= rough) [texture] → basto, áspero; [sand] → grueso; [skin] → áspero

2. (= badly made) → burdo, tosco

3. (= vulgar) [character, laugh, remark] → ordinario, tosco; [joke] → verde

B. CPD coarse fishing N → pesca f de agua dulce (excluyendo salmón y trucha)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

coarse

[ˈkɔː^rs] adj

(= not fine) [cloth] → grossier/ière; [skin] → épais(se); [hair] → dru(e); [sand, salt] → gros(se); [grass] → dru(e)
The bag was made of coarse cloth → Le sac était fait d'un tissu grossier.

[language, remark] → grossier/ière
coarse language → langage m grossier

[person] (= vulgar) → vulgairecoarse fishing n → pêche f à la ligne

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

coarse

adj (+er)

(= not delicate, in texture) → grob; sand, sugar also → grobkörnig; features also → derb; coarse sandpaper → grobes Schmirgelpapier

(= uncouth) → gewöhnlich; person, manners also → grob, ungehobelt, ungeschliffen; laugh → derb; joke → derb, unanständig

(= common) food → derb, einfach; coarse red wine → einfacher (Land)rotwein

coarse

coarse fish

n → Süßwasserfisch m (mit Ausnahme aller Lachs- und Forellenarten)

coarse fishing

n → Angeln nt → von Süßwasserfischen

coarse-grained

adj → grobfaserig; coarse fibre → grobe Faser; coarse paper → ungeleimtes Papier, Zeitungspapier nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

coarse

[kɔːs] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) (texture, skin, material) → ruvido/a; (salt, sand) → grosso/a; (sandpaper) → a grana grossa; (vulgar, character, laugh, remark) → volgare

coarse

(koːs) adjective

1. rough in texture or to touch; not fine. This coat is made of coarse material.

2. rude, vulgar or unrefined. coarse jokes.

ˈcoarsely adverb

ˈcoarseness noun

ˈcoarsen verb

to (cause to) become coarse. The laundry-work coarsened her hands.

coarse

→ فَظّ hrubý grov grob τραχύς basto, tosco karkea grossier grub grezzo きめの粗い 거친 grof grov szorstki grosseiro грубый grov อย่างหยาบ kaba thô 粗糙的

coarse

a. grueso-a; rudo-a, tosco-a, burdo-a, ordinario-a.

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In which the many occurrences that had passed at their last quarters were remembered, and every one, with great freedom, made what jokes he pleased on his officers, some of which were of the coarser kind, and very near bordering on scandal.

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It was a matter of course that in drawing Indian character he should dwell on the better traits of the picture, rather than on the coarser and more revolting though more common points.

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On her father, her confidence had not been sanguine, but he was more negligent of his family, his habits were worse, and his manners coarser, than she had been prepared for.

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"Our natural way of thinking about these coarser emotions, grief, fear, rage, love, is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression.

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I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs.

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Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.

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She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly washed for me with her own hands.

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Marian, who was really a trustworthy girl though of coarser grain than Tess, promised anything she asked.

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As he imparted to it a circular movement, the lighter, coarser particles washed out over the edge.

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Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.

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She was so eager to have them drawn that I could not refuse; but there is no making children of three or four years old stand still you know; nor can it be very easy to take any likeness of them, beyond the air and complexion, unless they are coarser featured than any of mama's children ever were.

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These were employed in the coarser parts of the work, and particularly in pricking in straight marks.

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