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degraded
English
Etymology
See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d????e?d?d/
Adjective
degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
- The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
Synonyms
- (deprived of dignity): humiliated
Translations
Verb
degraded
- simple past tense and past participle of degrade
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coarse
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôs, IPA(key): /k??s/
- (General American) enPR: kôrs, IPA(key): /k???s/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rs, IPA(key): /ko(?)?s/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Homophone: course
Adjective
coarse (comparative coarser, superlative coarsest)
- Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture.
- Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.
- coarse manners
- coarse language
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "coarse" is often applied: language, particle, grain, graining, sand, powder, gravel, grit, salt, gold, thread, hair, cloth, grid, aggregate, texture, grass, fish, angling, fishing.
Synonyms
- (of inferior quality): thick, rough, sharp, hard
- (not refined): rough, rude, uncouth, blunt, unpolished, inelegant, indelicate, vulgar, gritty, obscene, crass
Antonyms
- (of inferior quality): fine
Derived terms
- coarsely
- coarsen
- coarseness
Translations
Further reading
- coarse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- coarse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- coarse at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Arceos, Rascoe, acrose, ocreas
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