earthy

Adjective Satellite

• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
  • "an earthy sense of humor"
• not far removed from or suggestive of nature
  • "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"
  • "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
• hearty and lusty
  • "an earthy enjoyment of life"
• sensible and practical
  • "her earthy common sense"

Adjective

• Resembling or characteristic of earth; rustic or unrefined.
• 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"

Adj

• Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
• Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
• Coarse and unrefined, crude.
• Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
• Covered with earth (mud, dirt).

Examples

• Despite her EARTHY vocabulary, she managed to play several high-scoring words.
• earthy humour
• She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
• The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.

Synonyms

crude, down-to-earth, gross, vulgar, terreous

Related Words

Earthish, earthish, earthly, salt of the earth

Anagrams of earthy