different between clownish vs impolite
clownish
English
Etymology
From clown +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kla?n??/
Adjective
clownish (comparative more clownish, superlative most clownish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
- 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
- Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
- Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
- 2005, Laura Barton, The Guardian, 14 May 2005:
- Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.
- 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
- (now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
- (now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
- "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
Derived terms
- clownishness
Translations
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impolite
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impol?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mp??la?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Adjective
impolite (comparative impoliter or more impolite, superlative impolitest or most impolite)
- Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
- Synonyms: discourteous, uncivil, rude, unpolite; see also Thesaurus:impolite
Derived terms
- impolitely
- impoliteness
Translations
Latin
Adjective
impol?te
- vocative masculine singular of impol?tus
References
- impolite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- impolite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impolite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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