Coarse
adjective
Rough or loose in texture or grain.
He was wearing a suit made of coarse wool.
Often appears as...
- coarse texture
- coarse grain
adjective
Show less manners or refinement.
Her husband is a coarse and uncultured man.
Often appears as...
- coarse behavior
- coarse language
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Generally broad or wide-ranging rather than detailed or specific.
He had a coarse understanding of the subject matter.
Often appears as...
- coarse understanding
- coarse analysis
adjective
Rough or loose in texture or grain.
He was wearing a suit made of coarse wool.
Often appears as...
- coarse texture
- coarse grain
adjective
Show less manners or refinement.
Her husband is a coarse and uncultured man.
Often appears as...
- coarse behavior
- coarse language
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Generally broad or wide-ranging rather than detailed or specific.
He had a coarse understanding of the subject matter.
Often appears as...
- coarse understanding
- coarse analysis
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Reference
Use 'coarse' to describe materials like fabrics and hair that feel rough.
The pillow was covered with a coarse fabric that scratched my cheek.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Coarse' may convey a natural, rugged quality, not just something unpleasant.
The artist preferred coarse brushes for a more textured painting effect.
Pro Tip 3/3Food Texture
Describes foods with a less smooth, granular consistency.
Coarse sea salt is often used for its crunch and flavor.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Reference
Use 'coarse' to describe materials like fabrics and hair that feel rough.
The pillow was covered with a coarse fabric that scratched my cheek.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Coarse' may convey a natural, rugged quality, not just something unpleasant.
The artist preferred coarse brushes for a more textured painting effect.
Pro Tip 3/3Food Texture
Describes foods with a less smooth, granular consistency.
Coarse sea salt is often used for its crunch and flavor.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Reference
Use 'coarse' to describe materials like fabrics and hair that feel rough.
The pillow was covered with a coarse fabric that scratched my cheek.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Coarse' may convey a natural, rugged quality, not just something unpleasant.
The artist preferred coarse brushes for a more textured painting effect.
Pro Tip 3/3Food Texture
Describes foods with a less smooth, granular consistency.
Coarse sea salt is often used for its crunch and flavor.
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Pardis Sabeti: Can Math...
population and understand what they did and our our lab develops these methods that go by and look for those things and the methods used to be quite coarse what we could do is we could see these different regions of the genome that were important but they were very sort of course signals with thousands of different variants within them we were
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The magic of spices PIPE...
of mine he was using fine salt the scrubbing way too much salt I recommended coarse salt end of story they're a happy couple and these food tastes much better texture it is very important so assuming we went and we did this great awesome blend what do we do with it now well you
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A taboo-free way to talk...
so that nobody finds out that I'm menstruating. Due to repeated washing the rags would become coarse, and I would often get rashes and infections using them. I wore these already for five years until I moved out of that town. Another issue that periods brought in my life
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Making Potting Soil PIPE...
the potting soil mixture this has all of the nutrients that that a plane needs to get get a good start in life let's go ahead and sift these materials so that they're more manageable as you can see this mixture is becoming coarser and coarser so longer I'm sifting it and
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How do animals see in...
Whether eyes are slow, enormous, shiny, or coarse, it's the combination of these biological adaptations that gives nocturnal animals their unique visual powers. Imagine what it might be like to witness through their eyes the world that wakes up when the Sun goes down.
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Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
the best part of my job getting to suture with a leopard while having a snack and he also said after that I wish there were we could go up and just cuddle them because they just look so cuddly don't they but I'll tell you folks leopard fur is a lot more coarse
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These Men Love...
or no fat in it have you ever had cornflakes with skimmed milk it's awful topics we talk about when domain get together coarser Airport luggage carousels we started making notes whether they go clockwise or counterclockwise we don't like the
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Matthew Carter: My life...
in importance. So the priorities were just tipping at that point. They wanted a small core set of fonts that were not adapted but designed for the screen to face up to the problems of screen, which were their coarse resolution displays.
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Manatees Have Bad Breath...
no one really knows some characteristics link manatees to elephants in particular their teeth these like those of elephants are flat grinding molars as they're worn down by the coarse grass they're replaced by new ones that erupt
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Iain Hutchison: Saving...
and this. So the patient's life is restored. That's the good news. However, his chin skin doesn't look the same as it did before. It's skin from his back. It's thicker, it's darker, it's coarser, it doesn't have the contours.
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Pardis Sabeti: Can Math...
population and understand what they did and our our lab develops these methods that go by and look for those things and the methods used to be quite coarse what we could do is we could see these different regions of the genome that were important but they were very sort of course signals with thousands of different variants within them we were
Video examples
The magic of spices PIPE...
of mine he was using fine salt the scrubbing way too much salt I recommended coarse salt end of story they're a happy couple and these food tastes much better texture it is very important so assuming we went and we did this great awesome blend what do we do with it now well you
Video examples
A taboo-free way to talk...
so that nobody finds out that I'm menstruating. Due to repeated washing the rags would become coarse, and I would often get rashes and infections using them. I wore these already for five years until I moved out of that town. Another issue that periods brought in my life
Video examples
Making Potting Soil PIPE...
the potting soil mixture this has all of the nutrients that that a plane needs to get get a good start in life let's go ahead and sift these materials so that they're more manageable as you can see this mixture is becoming coarser and coarser so longer I'm sifting it and
Video examples
How do animals see in...
Whether eyes are slow, enormous, shiny, or coarse, it's the combination of these biological adaptations that gives nocturnal animals their unique visual powers. Imagine what it might be like to witness through their eyes the world that wakes up when the Sun goes down.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
the best part of my job getting to suture with a leopard while having a snack and he also said after that I wish there were we could go up and just cuddle them because they just look so cuddly don't they but I'll tell you folks leopard fur is a lot more coarse
Video examples
These Men Love...
or no fat in it have you ever had cornflakes with skimmed milk it's awful topics we talk about when domain get together coarser Airport luggage carousels we started making notes whether they go clockwise or counterclockwise we don't like the
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Matthew Carter: My life...
in importance. So the priorities were just tipping at that point. They wanted a small core set of fonts that were not adapted but designed for the screen to face up to the problems of screen, which were their coarse resolution displays.
Video examples
Manatees Have Bad Breath...
no one really knows some characteristics link manatees to elephants in particular their teeth these like those of elephants are flat grinding molars as they're worn down by the coarse grass they're replaced by new ones that erupt
Video examples
Iain Hutchison: Saving...
and this. So the patient's life is restored. That's the good news. However, his chin skin doesn't look the same as it did before. It's skin from his back. It's thicker, it's darker, it's coarser, it doesn't have the contours.
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Edward P. Jones
American Novelist
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
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Matt Stone
American Producer
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
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Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
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Edward Thorndike
American Psychologist
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
All cold brew coffee is more or less made the same way - by long-steeping coarse coffee grounds in unheated water - but it's not all created equal.
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Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
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Kevin DeYoung
American Theologian
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
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Carl Bernstein
American Journalist
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.
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Cyril Connolly
English Journalist
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Edward P. Jones
American Novelist
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
Quote examples
Matt Stone
American Producer
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
Quote examples
Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
Quote examples
Edward Thorndike
American Psychologist
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Quote examples
Claire Saffitz
American Editor
All cold brew coffee is more or less made the same way - by long-steeping coarse coffee grounds in unheated water - but it's not all created equal.
Quote examples
Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Quote examples
Kevin DeYoung
American Theologian
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Quote examples
Carl Bernstein
American Journalist
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Quote examples
Michelle Dean
American Journalist
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.
Quote examples
Cyril Connolly
English Journalist
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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