coarse Copy link Outline I. Of fabrics, materials1. crassus, a c. thread, c. filum, Cic.2. rŭdis, e (of that which is unfinished or rough)II. Of manners, language1. incultus2. illībĕrālis, e3. ĭnhūmānus4. infăcētus or infic. (wanting in art or grace)5. obscēnus • coarse: I. Of fabrics, materials: opp. to fine. 1. crassus, a c. thread, c. filum, Cic.: a c. toga, c. toga, Hor. Fig.: a coarser Muse, as they call it, crassior, ut vocant, Musa, Quint. 2. rŭdis, e (of that which is unfinished or rough): c. cloth, r. textum, Ov. (But rudis lana is unwrought wool, not coarse: Ov.) Phr.: c. salt, sal popularis, Cato: c. bread, panis secundarius (Suet.), or cibarius (Cic.). II. Of manners, language: rough, unpolished: 1. incultus: v. uncultivated, rude. 2. illībĕrālis, e: a c. kind of jesting, jocandi il. genus, Cic.: v. ungentlemanly. 3. ĭnhūmānus: v. ill-bred. 4. infăcētus or infic. (wanting in art or grace): Cat. 5. obscēnus: i. e. obscene: q. v.
COARSE Copy link • COARSEnot fine or tender, crassus (the proper word): densus (thick, with parts closely pressed together): coarse flour, *farina crassa: coarse bread, panis secundarius or secundus: coarse food, victus asper: coarse sand, sabulo: saburra (as ballast): a coarse toga, toga crassa: coarse thread, filum crassum. Rough, unpolished, inhumanus: inurbanus: agrestis: rusticus |SYN. in BOOR]. (The words are found in this connection and order). ferus agrestisque. A coarse joke, jocus illiberalis: jocus invidiosus (that makes us enemies): coarse manners, mores inculti: rusticitas (coarseness of behavior): a coarse brute, merum rus. To use coarse language against anybody, aspere or contumeliose (the latter meaning in an insulting manner) invehi in aliquem; probris et maledictis vexare aliquem: coarse-minded, horridus; horridus et durus: asperi animi (or by the words given above, inhumanus, etc., which relate more to the want of outward polish than to what it really wroug. Common, ordinary, vulgaris: or by substantive, vulgus, with the genitive, “coarse pracitioners” (Arbuth.).*vulgus medicorum (after Cic., vulgus patronorum. etc.). Not made neatly or skillfully, non artificiosus: inconditus: infabre factus: inscitus.