Dictionary Definition
boorish adj : 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:
loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
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English
Adjective
- Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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