swinish

1. 1.

   ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance

   “was boorish and insensitive”

   “the loutish manners of a bully”

   “her stupid oafish husband”

   “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”

   Synonymsboorishloutishneanderthalneandertaloafish

   Similarunrefined
2. 2.

   resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

   “piggish table manners”

   “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”

   “swinish slavering over food”

   Synonymshoggishpiggishpiggyporcine

   Similargluttonous

Other forms of swinish

comparative

swinisher·

superlative

swinishest·

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 swinish

What does swinish mean?

swinish means "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swinish?

swinish has 2 syllables: swi-nish. The stress falls on "swi".

What is another word for swinish?

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

swinish 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.