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scabrous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scabrous has 2 senses
- scabrous(s = adj.all) lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy - rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf; Array
- scabrous(s = adj.all) Array - dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"
CIDE DICTIONARY
scabrous, a. [L. scabrosus, fr. scaber rough: cf. F. scabreux.].
- Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. [1913 Webster]"His verse is scabrous and hobbling." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scabrous, adj.
1 having a rough surface; bearing short stiff hairs, scales, etc.; scurfy.
2 (of a subject, situation, etc.) requiring tactful treatment; hard to handle with decency.
3 a indecent, salacious. b behaving licentiously.
1 having a rough surface; bearing short stiff hairs, scales, etc.; scurfy.
2 (of a subject, situation, etc.) requiring tactful treatment; hard to handle with decency.
3 a indecent, salacious. b behaving licentiously.
Derivative
scabrously adv. scabrousness n.
Etymology
F scabreux or LL scabrosus f. L scaber rough
THESAURUS
scabrous
asperous, bristly, craggy, downy, flaky, flocculent, furfuraceous, harsh, jagged, knobby, knotty, lentiginous, lepidote, off-color, prickly, racy, risky, risque, rugged, salty, scabby, scabious, scaly, scraggy, scurfy, spicy, squamous, suggestive, thorny, uneven, unlevel, unsmoothROGET THESAURUS
scabrous
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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