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coarse
Meaning: rough rather than smooth or soft
coarse in a sentence
How coarse is used in real sentences:
The coarse rope scratched my hands as I pulled it.
The beach had coarse sand made of large, rough grains.
“Workers chewed the leaves into a coarse paste with rough bits still visible.”
— from the passage The Garden Below
Synonyms for coarse
Other words for coarse — rough, scratchy and gritty — carry the same meaning.
- rough
- scratchy
- gritty
Antonyms of coarse
Words that mean the opposite of coarse:
- smooth
- soft
Where it comes from
From Middle English cors 'ordinary or rough'
Memory hook
COARSE cloth feels ROUGH like sandpaper.