'Boorish' definitions:
Definition of 'boorish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
Definition of 'Boorish'
From: GCIDE
- Boorish \Boor"ish\, a. Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- {Boor"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Boor"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'boorish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all thumbs,
- awkward,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bucolic,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- caddish,
- careless,
- carlish,
- churlish,
- cloddish,
- clodhopping,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- coarse,
- countrified,
- country-born,
- country-bred,
- crude,
- cumbersome,
- farmerish,
- fingers all thumbs,
- from the sticks,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hayseed,
- heavy-handed,
- hick,
- hicky,
- hobnailed,
- hooliganish,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- ill-bred,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- inconsiderate,
- inelegant,
- insensitive,
- inurbane,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loobyish,
- loutish,
- louty,
- lowbred,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpen,
- lumpish,
- maladroit,
- nasty,
- oafish,
- offensive,
- outlandish,
- ponderous,
- provincial,
- raffish,
- robustious,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rowdyish,
- rube,
- rude,
- ruffianly,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- sloppy,
- stiff,
- tactless,
- tasteless,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unfeminine,
- ungainly,
- ungenteel,
- ungentle,
- ungentlemanly,
- ungraceful,
- ungracious,
- unhandy,
- unladylike,
- unpoised,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsolicitous,
- unwieldy,
- up-country,
- vulgar,
- yokel,
- yokelish