boorish
/'buəriʃ/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Ill-mannered, rude, and coarse: Describes a person or their behavior as lacking refinement, social grace, or consideration for others. It implies being rough, uncultured, and often insensitive.
- Contemptible in behavior or appearance: Suggests that the rudeness is so pronounced it evokes disdain or scorn from others.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- His boorish comments at the dinner party offended all the guests.
- The manager's boorish behavior towards the staff created a hostile work environment.
- She found his table manners to be unacceptably boorish.
Advanced Usage
- Used to describe a characteristic quality: The adjective can describe not just a single act but a person's enduring character.
- He was known for his boorish disregard for intellectual conversation.
- In literary or formal critique: Often used to criticize behavior that violates social or cultural norms of politeness.
- The critic dismissed the protagonist's actions as not just rebellious, but fundamentally boorish.
Variants and Related Words
- Boor (n): A rude, ill-mannered person.
- He acted like a complete boor, talking loudly during the concert.
- Boorishly (adv): In a boorish manner.
- He laughed boorishly at his own joke.
- Boorishness (n): The quality or state of being boorish.
- His boorishness made him few friends.
Synonyms
- Loutish: Clumsy and stupid; uncouth.
- Oafish: Stupid, uncultured, or clumsy.
- Coarse: Rough or harsh in texture or manner; lacking refinement.
- Uncouth: Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
- Crude: Offensively coarse or rude, especially in relation to sexual matters.
Antonyms
- Refined: Elegant and cultured in appearance, manner, or taste.
- Courteous: Polite, respectful, or considerate in manner.
- Cultivated: Refined and well-educated.
- Gentlemanly / Ladylike: Having the polite qualities traditionally associated with a gentleman or lady.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- (To be) A bull in a china shop: To be careless and clumsy in a situation requiring tact and delicacy. This idiom shares the concept of insensitive, rough behavior implied by "boorish."
- His boorish negotiation style was like a bull in a china shop.
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