boorish
3 definitions found
boorish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Boorish \Boor"ish\, a.
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. --
Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
boorish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
boorish
adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal,
oafish, swinish]
boorish - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "boorish":
all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded,
blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish,
careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish,
clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born,
country-bred, crude, cumbersome, farmerish, fingers all thumbs,
from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless,
ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky,
hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered,
impolite, inconsiderate, inelegant, insensitive, inurbane,
left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, loutish, louty, lowbred,
lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish,
offensive, outlandish, ponderous, provincial, raffish, robustious,
roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic,
sloppy, stiff, tactless, tasteless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth,
uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel,
ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unhandy,
unladylike, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous,
unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, yokel, yokelish
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