oafish

Questions about oafish

What does oafish mean?

oafish means "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance".

How many syllables are in oafish?

oafish has 3 syllables: o-a-fish. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for oafish?

Close synonyms include boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, swinish. 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 oafish a common word?

oafish 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oafish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.