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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent;
- Example: "coarse language"
- Example: "a crude joke"
- Example: "crude behavior"
- Example: "an earthy sense of humor"
- Example: "a revoltingly gross expletive"
- Example: "a vulgar gesture"
- Example: "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
[syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]

2. not far removed from or suggestive of nature;
- Example: "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"
- Example: "earthy smells of new-mown grass"

3. hearty and lusty;
- Example: "an earthy enjoyment of life"

4. of or consisting of or resembling earth;
- Example: "it had an earthy smell"
- Example: "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean"

5. sensible and practical;
- Example: "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"
- Example: "her earthy common sense"
[syn: down-to-earth, earthy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Earthy \Earth"y\, a.
   1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike;
      as, earthy matter.
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            How pale she looks,
            And of an earthy cold!                --Shak.
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            All over earthy, like a piece of earth. --Tennyson.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly;
      terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." --Milton.
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            The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second
            man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they
            also that are earthy.                 --1 Cor. xv.
                                                  47, 48 (Rev.
                                                  Ver. )
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            Earthy spirits black and envious are. --Dryden.
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   3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands."
      --Shak.
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   4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch;
      as, an earthy fracture.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

earthy
    adj 1: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse
           language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy
           sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a
           vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should
           have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross,
           vulgar]
    2: not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy
       taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of
       new-mown grass"
    3: hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
    4: of or consisting of or resembling earth; "it had an earthy
       smell"; "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge
       of the ocean"
    5: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth
       approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" [syn:
       down-to-earth, earthy]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthy":
   Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe,
   animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic,
   bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute,
   brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass,
   crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite,
   fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled,
   hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent,
   lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material,
   materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy,
   mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical,
   positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded,
   pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic,
   reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific,
   scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded,
   soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish,
   tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic,
   uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic,
   unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly