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churl·ish
 churlish
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- pronunciation:
- chuhr
lihsh
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
rude or vulgar in behavior or manner.
Working as a cocktail waitress was lucrative but it meant enduring the often churlish behavior of drunken customers.- synonyms:
- boorish, lowbred, uncouth, vulgar
- antonyms:
- courtly, polite, refined
- similar words:
- barbaric, bearish, coarse, crabbed, crude, grouchy, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, irascible, obnoxious, quarrelsome, rough, rude, surly
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| definition 2: |
peasantlike.
She thought herself too sophisticated to involve herself with a man she considered churlish and somewhat backward.- synonyms:
- provincial, rustic, uncultured
- antonyms:
- aristocratic, courtly, gentlemanly
- similar words:
- agrarian, Arcadian, backwoods, boorish, coarse, countrified, down-home, homespun, pastoral, primitive, uncivil, unsophisticated
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| definition 3: |
stingy; miserly.
He was a wealthy but churlish man who spent little on his family and gave nothing to charity.- synonyms:
- miserly, penurious, stingy
- antonyms:
- generous, magnanimous
- similar words:
- chary, cheap, niggardly, parsimonious, tightfisted
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| related words: |
cross, gruff, raw, scurrilous, sordid, uncivilized, uncouth |
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| derivations: |
churlishly (adv.), churlishness (n.) |
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