different between unmusical vs scabrous
unmusical
English
Etymology
un- +? musical
Adjective
unmusical (comparative more unmusical, superlative most unmusical)
- Not musical: lacking in musical ability.
- Not musical: unmelodic.
- 1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal (volume 46, page 231)
- The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be.
- 1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal (volume 46, page 231)
Translations
unmusical From the web:
- what is unmusical sound
- what does musicality mean
scabrous
English
Etymology
From Latin scaber (“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”) (from scab? (“to scratch, scrape, abrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *skab?- (“to scratch”)) + English -ous; compare French scabreux, Late Latin scabr?sus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ske?b??s/, /?ska-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skæb??s/, /?ske?-/
- Hyphenation: sca?brous
Adjective
scabrous (comparative more scabrous, superlative most scabrous)
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- Synonyms: scabby, scaly, scurfy; see also Thesaurus:scabby, Thesaurus:rough
- (figuratively) Disgusting, repellent.
- Synonyms: repulsive, vile; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant
- (figuratively) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- Synonyms: harsh, rough; see also Thesaurus:cacophonous
- 1693, John Dryden, “The Dedication”, in Juvenal; Persius; John Dryden, [William Congreve, and Nahum Tate], transl., The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], ?OCLC, page xxx:
- [A]s his Verse is ?cabrous, and hobbling, and his Words not every where well cho?en, the purity of Latin being more corrupted, than in the time of Juvenal, and con?equently of Horace, who writ when the Language was in the heighth of its perfection; ?o his diction is hard; his Figures are generally too bold and daring; and his Tropes, particularly his Metaphors, in?ufferably ?train'd.
- (figuratively) Difficult, thorny, troublesome.
- (figuratively, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
Derived terms
- scabrously
- scabrousness
Related terms
- scab
- scaberulous
- scabies
Translations
Further reading
- “scabrous”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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