Synonyms for swinish
- adjective
Most common
neanderthal brutish boorish oafish piggish hoggish gluttonous swinelike
Definitions
- adj. 1
Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
Example sentences
- neanderthal The Neanderthal was named after theologian Joachim Neander.
- brutish He was coarse in his habits and brutish in his ways.
- boorish I feel like holding hands now would be incredibly boorish.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| swinish | steady | |
| neanderthal | steady | |
| brutish | rising | |
| boorish | rising | |
| oafish | rising | |
| piggish | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- gross1, piggy2
- 6 letters
- oafish
- 7 letters
- beastly2, brutish2, porcine, boorish2, loutish, piggish, hoggish, piglike, hoglike, boarish
- 8 letters
- boarlike
- 9 letters
- swinelike
- 10 letters
- gluttonous3
- 11 letters
- neanderthal4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (piggy2 = 2 syllables).