earthy

1. 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”

   Synonymscrudegrossvulgar

   Similarindecent
2. 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”

   Similarnatural
3. 3.

   hearty and lusty

   “an earthy enjoyment of life”

   Similaruninhibited
4. 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. 5.

   sensible and practical

   “has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem”

   “her earthy common sense”

   Synonymsdown-to-earth

   Similarrealistic

Other forms of earthy

comparative or superlative

earthier

comparative or superlative

earthiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about earthy

What does earthy mean?

earthy means "conspicuously and tastelessly indecent". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in earthy?

earthy has 2 syllables: ear-thy. The stress falls on "ear". In IPA it is /ˈɝθi/.

What is another word for earthy?

Close synonyms include crude, gross, vulgar, down-to-earth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earthy a common word?

earthy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.