Usually means: Rough or harsh in texture.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. coarse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coarse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coarse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coarse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coarse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coarse, coarse: Wordnik
  7. coarse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coarse: Wiktionary
  9. coarse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coarse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coarse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coarse: Dictionary.com
  13. coarse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coarse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coarse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coarse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coarse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coarse: Rhymezone
  19. coarse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coarse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. coarse: Free Dictionary
  22. coarse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. coarse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. coarse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. coarse: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coarse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coarse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coarse: Sound Alike Words
  2. coarse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. COARSE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coarse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. coarse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
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Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See coarsely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  With a rough texture; not smooth.
adjective:  Composed of large particles.
adjective:  Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.
adjective:  (archaic, of a metal) Unrefined.
adjective:  Of inferior quality.

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