PEARLINESS Antonyms

• language or humor that is down-to-earth

• the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

• looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

• the quality of lacking taste and refinement

• discoloration due to dirtiness

• a soiled or discolored appearance

• the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded

• the quality of being slow to understand

• the quality of lacking interestingness

• a lack of visual brightness

• lack of sensibility

• without sharpness or clearness of edge or point

• the state of being grimy

• an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

• the quality of being cloudy

• the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation

• incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

• the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

• a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• an unpolished unrefined quality

• used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

• rowdy behavior

• the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

• harsh or severe speech or behavior

• discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation

• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically