peasantlike

peasantlike
Resembling or characteristic of a peasant.

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  • Peasantlike — Peas ant*like , a. Rude; clownish; illiterate. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • peasantlike — a.; (also peasantly) Rude, clownish, illiterate …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • peasantlike — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective : of, relating to, or characteristic of a peasant …   Useful english dictionary

  • peasant — peasantlike, adj. /pez euhnt/, n. 1. a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. 2. a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial… …   Universalium

  • Peasantly — Peas ant*ly, a. Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • churlish — churlishly, adv. churlishness, n. /cherr lish/, adj. 1. like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior. 2. of a churl; peasantlike. 3. niggardly; mean. 4. difficult to work or deal with, as soil. [bef. 1000; ME cherlish, OE ceorlisc. See CHURL,… …   Universalium

  • pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction       the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th …   Universalium

  • peasantly — a. See peasantlike …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • boorish — adj 1. rude, vulgar, uncouth, coarse, unmannerly, ill mannered, ill bred; churlish, brutish, barbaric, crude, crass, base, low, vile, contemptible; loutish, oafish, doltish, cloddish, stolid, clodhopping, gawkish or gawky, lubberly, lumpish,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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