Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of OAFISH

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
 
 Sponsored Links: 
 
 Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish, unrefined
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Oaf"ish\, a.
Like an oaf; simple. -- {Oaf"ish*ness}, n.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: all thumbs, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, Boeotian, boorish, bovine, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, chumpish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cowish, crass, cumbersome, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ineducable, inelegant, klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, opaque, ponderous, sloppy, sottish, stiff, stupid, thick, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unteachable, unwieldy, wrongheaded
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY