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}, {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}]