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coarse

adjectifattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//kɔːs//
  • États-Unis//kɔɹs//
  • États-Unis/[kʰo̞ɹs]/
  • //ko(ː)ɹs//
  • //koəs//

With a rough texture; not smooth.

adjectif

  1. 1

    With a rough texture; not smooth.

    Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

  2. 2

    Composed of large particles.

    coarse sand

    Graham flour is coarsely granulated wheat meal. No sieves or bolting cloths are employed in its manufacture, and many coarse, unpulverized particles are present in the product.

    Missing units may be attributed to either the lack of proper sized material in the source or the successive, downcurrent sedimentation of the coarser materials first and the finer materials last.

  3. 3

    Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.

    coarse manners

    coarse language

    ☞ This word [earth] is liable to a coarſe vulgar pronunciation, as if written Urth;[…]

    The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.

  4. 4

    archaïqueUnrefined.

  5. 5

    Of inferior quality.

    Due to the internet issue, the system generated an coarse audio file.

    She detests visiting coarse places.

  6. 6

    Not thin; thick.

Étymologie

Adjectival use of course that diverged in spelling in the 18th century. The sense developed from '(following) the usual course' (cf. of course) to 'ordinary, common' to 'lacking refinement', with 'not fine, granular' arising from its application to cloth. Compare the development of mean.

Formes

comparatif
coarser
superlatif
coarsest
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).