scabrous

Adjective Satellite

• rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
• dealing with salacious or indecent material
  • "a scabrous novel"

Adj

• Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
• Disgusting, repellent.
• Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
• Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
• Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
• Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
• Having scabers.

Adjective

• Rough to the touch due to small, stiff projections.

Examples

• After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
• The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public.
• The Words With Friends board felt SCABROUS with so many consonants blocking easy plays.

Synonyms

lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy, abhorrant, abhorrent, abrasive, absonant, asperous, bad, cacophonic, cacophonical, cacophonious, cacophonous, coarse, discordant, disgusting, disharmonious, dissonant, distasteful, foul, fulsome, gimped, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, harsh, honeyed, horrisonant, horrisonous, immelodious, inharmonious, insonorous, irregular, jagged, jaggy, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, noneuphonious, nonsonorous, obnoxious, offensive, raucous, reef, repulsive, revolting, rough, roynish, rugged, rugose, salebrous, scabby, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous, scald, scalled, scraggy, scurvy, shagged, sickening, squarrose, strident, tuneless, uneuphonious, uneven, unharmonious, unlistenable, unmellifluous, unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical, unpleasant, unsmooth, unsonorous, untunable, vile

Related Words

scab, scaberulous, scabies

Anagrams of scabrous