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Synonyms for loutish

  • adjective

Most common

boorish clownish gawky oafish yobbish

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Boorish

boorish, uncouth, oafish, rude, clownish, gawky, neanderthal, unrefined, awkward, ungainly, ungentlemanly, ungraceful informal, lubberly, swinish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, inelegant, unpolished

Other

yobbish, hoonish slang AU NZ

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Resembling a lout (troublemaker or bumpkin).

Example sentences

  • boorish I feel like holding hands now would be incredibly boorish.
  • clownish I am not amused by your clownish antics.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
loutishrising
boorishrising
clownishrising
gawkyrising
oafishrising
yobbishsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
rude1
5 letters
gawky2
6 letters
clumsy2, coarse1, oafish
7 letters
awkward2, uncouth2, boorish2, swinish, yobbish, hoonish
8 letters
ungainly3, churlish2, clownish, lubberly
9 letters
unrefined3, inelegant
10 letters
unpolished, ungraceful
11 letters
neanderthal4
13 letters
ungentlemanly

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gawky2 = 2 syllables).