COARSE-GRAINED Synonyms

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

• willing to face danger

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture

• not divisible by two

• (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents

• variable and recurring at irregular intervals

• lacking consistency

• resembling starch

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

• not having a fine texture

• containing meal or made of meal

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency