What is "cloddish" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does cloddish mean in English? Meaning of cloddish definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "cloddish" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "cloddish": heavy and dull and stupid

Adjective

  • Meaning: heavy and dull and stupid
  • Synonyms: cloddish doltish
  • Similar: stupid
  • Adjective: Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial. He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.Of or pertaining to lumpy soil. 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”[1], poem, last five lines: Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”[1], poem, last five lines: Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
  • Synonyms:

    rude, tasteless, vulgar, churlish, impolite, ugly, barbaric, uncivilized, coarse, cantankerous, clumsy, countrified, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, bad-mannered, bearish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, swinish, unpoised, grumpy, uncivilized, sullen, rude, ornery, base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, rustic, snippy, surly, touchy, ugly, uncivil, uncultured, unmannerly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar, crabbed, clodhopping, cussed, lowbred, unneighborly, boorish, indecent, rude, savage, cheap, obscene, raw, clumsy, coarse, lewd, crass, gross, rough, foul, barnyard, awkward, backward, dirty, earthy, filthy, ignorant, indelicate, inelegant, insensible, loud, loutish, oafish, raunchy, smutty, tacky, tactless, uncouth, unenlightened, ungainly, unskillful, grody, ill-bred, loud-mouthed, lowbred, barbaric, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, dense, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, doltish, bad-mannered, bearish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, swinish, blockheaded, brainless, dense, dimwitted, dumb, empty-headed, half-witted, oafish, obtuse, simple, simpleminded, thickheaded, unintelligent, blockish, boneheaded, loggerheaded,

    Antonyms:

    kind, mannerly, polite, pleasant, charming, cultured, exciting, nice, polished, refined, sophisticated, smooth, gentle, delicate, pleasant, polite, happy, nice, polished, refined, sophisticated, gentle, polite, kind, moral, tasteful, planned, stilted, refined, sophisticated, clean, decent, pure, nice, smooth, delicate, gentle, polished, formal,

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