'Earthy' definitions:
Definition of 'earthy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]
adjective
Not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
adjective
Hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
adjective
Of or consisting of or resembling earth; "it had an earthy smell"; "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean"
adjective
Sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" [syn: down-to-earth, earthy]
Definition of 'Earthy'
From: GCIDE
- Earthy \Earth"y\, a.
- 1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. [1913 Webster]
- How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All over earthy, like a piece of earth. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. --1 Cor. xv.
- 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) [1913 Webster]
- Earthy spirits black and envious are. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'earthy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- Adamic,
- Adamite,
- Adamitic,
- adobe,
- animal,
- animalistic,
- anthropocentric,
- anthropological,
- banausic,
- bawdy,
- beastlike,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bodily,
- broad,
- brutal,
- brute,
- brutish,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- Circean,
- clayey,
- clayish,
- coarse,
- crass,
- crude,
- dirty,
- down-to-earth,
- dusty,
- earthly,
- fallen,
- finite,
- fleshly,
- frail,
- frank,
- gaudy,
- gross,
- gumbo,
- gutter,
- hard-boiled,
- hardheaded,
- hominal,
- homocentric,
- human,
- humanistic,
- indecent,
- lapsed,
- loamy,
- loud,
- low,
- lusty,
- man-centered,
- marly,
- material,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- meretricious,
- mortal,
- muddy,
- mundane,
- nonspiritual,
- obscene,
- only human,
- orgiastic,
- Philistine,
- physical,
- positivistic,
- postlapsarian,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- profane,
- rank,
- rational,
- raw,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rude,
- sandy,
- sane,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secular,
- sensible,
- sensual,
- shameless,
- sober-minded,
- soily,
- sound,
- sound-thinking,
- straight-thinking,
- swinish,
- tellurian,
- telluric,
- temporal,
- terrene,
- terrestrial,
- unangelic,
- uncouth,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- uninhibited,
- unrefined,
- unromantic,
- unsentimental,
- unspiritual,
- vulgar,
- wanton,
- weak,
- worldly