coarseness

coarseness is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
2. noun. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

   Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity

3. noun. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

   Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness

4. noun. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

   Synonyms: graininess, granularity

5. noun. language or humor that is down-to-earth

   "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"

   "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

   Synonyms: saltiness

Synonyms

commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity, nubbiness, tweediness, graininess, granularity, saltiness

Words from these letters

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