Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus / cloddish
FEEDBACK

cloddish

See definition of cloddish on Dictionary.com
  • as inboorish
  • as inchurlish
  • as incrude
  • as indoltish
  • as inloutish

synonyms for cloddish

  • barbaric
  • churlish
  • coarse
  • impolite
  • rude
  • tasteless
  • uncivilized
  • vulgar
  • bad-mannered
  • bearish
  • cantankerous
  • clodhopping
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • countrified
  • gross
  • gruff
  • ill-bred
  • ill-mannered
  • inurbane
  • loud
  • loutish
  • lowbred
  • oafish
  • ornery
  • out of line
  • out-of-order
  • provincial
  • rough
  • rustic
  • swinish
  • ugly
  • uncouth
  • uncultured
  • uneducated
  • ungracious
  • unpoised
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
See also synonyms for: cloddishness
On this page you'll find 205 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cloddish, such as: barbaric, churlish, coarse, impolite, rude, and tasteless.

antonyms for cloddish

MOST RELEVANT
  • delicate
  • gentle
  • kind
  • mannerly
  • nice
  • pleasant
  • polished
  • polite
  • refined
  • smooth
  • sophisticated
  • charming
  • cultured
      Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
      QUIZ
      This Word Of The Day Quiz Is Truly Prismatic!
      START THE QUIZ

      How to use cloddish in a sentence

      Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.
      DESERT DUSTEDWIN L. SABIN
      Two cloddish-looking contadini stood gazing at him, rapt in awe.
      A GIRL AMONG THE ANARCHISTSISABEL MEREDITH
      The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."
      A TRUTHFUL WOMAN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAKATE SANBORN
      There is something in a moonlit night at sea that must touch in the most cloddish heart a spring of fancy.
      THE SHOES OF FORTUNENEIL MUNRO
      It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.
      CROME YELLOWALDOUS HUXLEY
      She was no longer a cloddish lump of horseflesh, but an individual, a soul; Gregg's hand fell from his gun.
      THE SEVENTH MANMAX BRAND
      But how would it have been with a cloddish unimaginative fellow, whom nature never intended should understand Shakspere?
      A LOGIC OF FACTSGEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE
      SYNONYM OF THE DAY
      OCTOBER 26, 1985
      Choose the synonym for future
      capacitor
      lightning
      DeLorean

      WORDS RELATED TO CLODDISH

      Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.