Adjective coarse has 4 senses
- coarse - of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
Antonyms: fine, close, tight, close-grained, dustlike, floury, nongranular, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained, small, superfine
- coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar - lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
Antonym: refined (indirect, via unrefined)
- coarse, common - of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
- coarse, crude, earthy, gross, vulgar - 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"
Antonym: decent (indirect, via indecent)
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