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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent;
- Example: "coarse language"
- Example: "a crude joke"
- Example: "crude behavior"
- Example: "an earthy sense of humor"
- Example: "a revoltingly gross expletive"
- Example: "a vulgar gesture"
- Example: "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
[syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]

2. not far removed from or suggestive of nature;
- Example: "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"
- Example: "earthy smells of new-mown grass"

3. hearty and lusty;
- Example: "an earthy enjoyment of life"

4. of or consisting of or resembling earth;
- Example: "it had an earthy smell"
- Example: "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean"

5. sensible and practical;
- Example: "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"
- Example: "her earthy common sense"
[syn: down-to-earth, earthy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Earthy \Earth"y\, a. 1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. [1913 Webster] How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! --Shak. [1913 Webster] All over earthy, like a piece of earth. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." --Milton. [1913 Webster] The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. --1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) [1913 Webster] Earthy spirits black and envious are. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

earthy adj 1: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar] 2: not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass" 3: hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life" 4: 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" 5: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" [syn: down-to-earth, earthy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthy": Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass, crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite, fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent, lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy, mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic, reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded, soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic, unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly