COARSE    粗

THICK BECAUSE CONTAIING THICK PARTS.
SCRATCHYPRICKLYWIRYROUGHROUGH-HEWNHEAVY
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The dominant word for anything physically or otherwise coarsE and not fine or subtle is cū 粗 / 麤 (ant. xì 細 "fine" and jīng 精 "subtle and exquisite"). See also ORDINARY 2. Shū 疏 (ant. liáng 粱 "exquisite (of food)") refers typically to poor quality coarse food.
Modern Chinese Criteria
粗 粗糙 毛糙 粗陋 粗劣 粗拉 粗疏 粗笨 refers to clumsy unwieldiness, and the word is marginal in the group. 糙 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • TENUOUSUNIMPORTANT BECAUSE LACKING BIGNESS, REALITY, OR HIGH DEGREE.
Hypernym
  • THICK　BIG in the MOST SMALL DIMENSION. (anc: 8/0, child: 2)
  • BIG　OF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 15)
  • SIZE　QUANTITY of a DIMENSION. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 15.76

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    ROUGH

    horridus is the general word for whatever is rough and rugged.

    hirtus and hisrsutus refer particularly to what is covered with rough hair or a rough surface and is therefore not soft and smooth.

    hispidus refers to roughness of surface that offends the eye.

    asper refers to the roughness of a surface especially insofar as it my cause injury or cause pain.

  • Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages ( DE VAAN 2008) p.

    asper, -era, -erum 'rough, harsh' [adj. o/a] (P1.+)

    Derivatives: asperare 'to make rough' (Varro+), exasperare 'id.' (Liv.+).

    • Words (14 items)

    粗  cū OC: skhaa MC: tshuo̝
    麤  cū OC: tshaa MC: tshuo̝ 18 Attributions

    The dominant word for anything physically or otherwise coarsE and not fine or subtle is cū 粗/麤 (ant. xì 細 "fine" and jīng 精"subtle and exquisite"). See also ORDINARY

      Word relations
    • Ant: 精/TENUOUS
    • Epithet: 穢/DIRTY Huì 穢 can refer to physical dirt, but the word is also used abstractly to refer to what is vulgar and morally distasteful.
    • Oppos: 精/TENUOUS

      Syntactic words
    • nabfigurativethe realm of merely material realityCH
    • nabstativecoarseness, crudeness
    • v[adN]N=nonhuwhat is coarse or crude
    • vadNcoarse, crude; oversized
    • vi(physically) rough, coarse, crude
    • vifigurative(figuratively, transferred sense:) be unsubtle, be coarse LIJI 10.32 coarse (of ceremonies); LIJI 10.39f: coarse (of people)
    • vimetaZZ 17.593: be crude and visible (parts of the material world)
    疏  shū OC: sqra MC: ʂi̯ɤ 6 Attributions

    Shū 疏 (ant. liáng 粱 "exquisite (of food)") refers typically to poor quality coarse food.

      Syntactic words
    • vadNcoarse, unrefined (food) 疏食
    • vibe coarse (of vessels)
    侗  tóng OC: looŋ MC: duŋ 2 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Ant: 愿/DILIGENT Yuàn 愿 (not to be confused with yuàn 願 "hope") is an elevated rare word referring to respectful diligence of the people.

      Syntactic words
    • vibe unpolished, be uncivilised
    大  dà OC: daads MC: dɑi 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNcoarse (e.g. cloth)
    粗強  cū qiáng OC: skhaa ɡaŋ MC: tshuo̝ gi̯ɐŋ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPicoarse and tough
    草  cǎo OC: tshuuʔ MC: tshɑu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nadVroughly; coarsly
    粗澀  cū sè OC: skhaa MC: tshuo̝ ʂip 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe all crude
    觕  cū OC: tshaa MC: tshuo̝ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vigross; coarse
    八升  bā bá shēng MC: peat sying OC: preed -- 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNmade of coarse fabricCH
    唁  yàn OC: ŋrans MC: ŋiɛn 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vibe crude, uncivilised, unpolished in one's behaviour French: "inculte"
    絞  jiǎo OC: kreewʔ MC: kɣɛu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nabpsychcoarseness
    • vibe crude and unpolished (in what one says); uncivilised and unduly familiar
    苴  jū OC: ska MC: tsi̯ɤ 0 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 粗 / 麤/COARSE The dominant word for anything physically or otherwise coarsE and not fine or subtle is cū 粗/麤 (ant. xì 細 "fine" and jīng 精"subtle and exquisite"). See also ORDINARY

      Syntactic words
    • vadNcoarse??
    野  yě OC: laʔ MC: jɣɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNfigurativeunsophisticated; unembellished
    固  gù OC: kaas MC: kuo̝ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vibe coarse, unsubtle; unpolished, uncivilised