Word Meanings - CHURLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish

Additional info about word: CHURLISH

1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHURLISH)

• Crabbed
• Sour
• morose
• crossgrained
• petulant
• churlish
• irritable
• crusty
• Rough
• Uneven
• harsh
• bristly
• scabrous
• rugged
• knotty
• unpolished
• boisterous
• tempestuous
• stormy
• coarse
• craggy
• gruff
• crude
• severe
• shaggy
• disordered
• unrefined
• uncourteous
• rude
• unshaped
• blunt
• Rude
• Impertinent
• rough
• shapeless
• unfashioned
• artless
• uncouth
• inelegant
• rustic
• vulgar
• clownish
• raw
• unskilful
• untaught
• illiterate
• ignorant
• uncivil
• saucy
• impolite
• impudent
• insolent
• surly
• brutal
• uncivilized
• barbarous
• savage
• violent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• Impetuous
• inclement
• Insulting
• grotesque
• barbaric
• archaic
• Tart
• rancid
• coagulated
• turned
• crabbed
• austere
• pungent
• acid
• bitter
• acetous
• acrimonious
• peevish
• Sulky
• Sullen
• gloomy
• splenetic
• ill-tempered
• fretful

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• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.