coarse
Syllabification: (coarse)
Pronunciation: /kôrs/
Translate coarse | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Do not confuse coarse with course. Coarse means 'rough' (my hair is coarse and wavy), whereas course means 'a direction' (the plane changed course).
Definition of coarse
adjective
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense 'ordinary or inferior'): origin uncertain; until the 17th century identical in spelling with course, and possibly derived from the latter in the sense 'habitual or ordinary manner'
