COARSE

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