coarsened

1. 1.

   made coarse or crude by lack of skill

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Questions about coarsened

What does coarsened mean?

coarsened means "made coarse or crude by lack of skill".

How many syllables are in coarsened?

coarsened has 3 syllables: coar-se-ned. The stress falls on "coar".

Is coarsened a common word?

coarsened is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.