Synonyms for boorish
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Loutish
loutish, uncouth, rude, uncultured, ill-mannered, impolite, oafish, vulgar, unrefined, churlish, discourteous, clumsy, uncivil, awkward, neanderthal, coarse, gawky, outlandish, ungainly, rustic, bearish, ungentlemanly
Other
carterly dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
Example sentences
- impolite Tom told me that he thought Mary had been impolite.
- uncultured An uncultured person is an enslaved animal.
- loutish He makes no friends with his loutish behaviour.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| boorish | rising | |
| impolite | rising | |
| uncultured | rising | |
| loutish | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- rude1
- 5 letters
- gawky2
- 6 letters
- vulgar2, clumsy2, coarse1, rustic2, oafish
- 7 letters
- awkward2, bearish2, uncouth2, uncivil3, loutish
- 8 letters
- impolite3, ungainly3, churlish2, carterly
- 9 letters
- unrefined3
- 10 letters
- outlandish3, uncultured
- 11 letters
- neanderthal4
- 12 letters
- discourteous
- 13 letters
- ungentlemanly
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gawky2 = 2 syllables).