COARSE  粗

THICK BECAUSE CONTAIING THICK PARTS.
SCRATCHYPRICKLYWIRYROUGHROUGH-HEWNHEAVY
Antonym
  • TENUOUSUNIMPORTANT BECAUSE LACKING BIGNESS, REALITY, OR HIGH DEGREE.
    Hypernym
    • THICKBIG in the MOST SMALL DIMENSION.
      • BIGOF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN.
        • SIZEQUANTITY of a DIMENSION.
          • QUANTITYDEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED....
    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 ／

    • 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.+).

    Attributions by syntactic funtion

    • vi : 14
    • vadN : 13
    • VPi : 3
    • v[adN] : 2
    • nab : 2
    • VPadN : 1
    • nadV : 1

    Attributions by text

    • 論語 : 7
    • 禮記 : 4
    • 賢愚經 : 4
    • 春秋左傳 : 3
    • 莊子 : 3
    • 呂氏春秋 : 3
    • 法言 : 2
    • 百喻經 : 2
    • 臨濟錄 : 2
    • 韓非子 : 2
    • 說苑 : 1
    • 荀子 : 1
    • 論衡 : 1
    • 文子 : 1

    Words

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

    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 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD

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

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

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