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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 2. Characterized by unpleasant discordance of sound: cacophonous, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, unharmonious, unmusical. See AGREE, SOUNDS. 3. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship: crude, primitive, raw, rough, unpolished. See GOOD. 4. Lacking good manners: discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished. See COURTESY. 5. Not civilized: barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, primitive, savage, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, wild. Archaic : uncivil. See CULTURE, WILD.
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