scabrous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- dealing with salacious or indecent material
- "a scabrous novel"
Adj
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- Disgusting, repellent.
- Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- Having scabers.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin scaber (“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”) (from scabō (“to scratch, scrape, abrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”)) + English -ous; compare French scabreux, Late Latin scabrōsus.
Synonyms
abhorrant, abhorrent, abrasive, absonant, asperous, bad, cacophonic, cacophonical, cacophonious, cacophonous, coarse, discordant, disgusting, disharmonious, dissonant, distasteful, foul, fulsome, gimped, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, harsh, honeyed, horrisonant, horrisonous, immelodious, inharmonious, insonorous, irregular, jagged, jaggy, lepidote, leprose, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, noneuphonious, nonsonorous, obnoxious, offensive, raucous, reef, repulsive, revolting, rough, roynish, rugged, rugose, salebrous, scabby, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous, scald, scalled, scaly, scraggy, scurfy, scurvy, shagged, sickening, squarrose, strident, tuneless, uneuphonious, uneven, unharmonious, unlistenable, unmellifluous, unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical, unpleasant, unsmooth, unsonorous, untunable, vile
Scrabble Score: 12
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