scabrous
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adjective- 1.
Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
Đồng nghĩa: scabby, scaly, scurfy, reef, roynish, scabby, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous, scald, scalled, scurvy, abrasive, asperous, coarse, gimped, harsh, irregular, jagged, jaggy, rough, rugged, rugose, salebrous, scabrous, scraggy, shagged, squarrose, uneven, unsmooth
- 2.
(figuratively)(figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public.
Đồng nghĩa: repulsive, vile, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, bum, vile, demonic, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, foul, rancid, fulsome, gooey, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, harsh, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, offensive, obnoxious, obscene, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scabrous, sickening, strident, unpleasant
- 3.
(figuratively)(figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- 4.
(figuratively)(figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
Đồng nghĩa: harsh, rough, absonant, cacophonic, cacophonical, cacophonious, cacophonous, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, honeyed, horrisonant, horrisonous, immelodious, inharmonious, insonorous, noneuphonious, nonsonorous, raucous, rough, scabrous, tuneless, uneuphonious, unmusical, unharmonious, unlistenable, unmellifluous, unmelodic, unmelodious, untunable, unsonorous
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(figuratively)(figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- 6.
(US, figuratively)(figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- 7.
(biology) Having scabers.
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Latin scaber (scabrous, [[rough#Adjective) (from scabō (to [[scratch#Verb), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (to scratch)) +; compare scabreux, scabrōsus.