Word Meanings - COARSEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• 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
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• VULGARIZATION
  The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
• VULGARIAN
  A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
• VULGARISM
  1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
• VULGARLY
  In a vulgar manner.
• VULGARIZE
  To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• VULGAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
• COARSEN
  To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• VULGARNESS
  The quality of being vulgar.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• GRAHAMITE
  One who follows the dietetic system of Graham.
• VULGARITY
  1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne. 2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• DEVULGARIZE
  To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• INVULGAR
  To cause to become or appear vulgar. Daniel.
• UNVULGARIZE
  To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.