scabrous
About 0.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
- adjective Disgusting, repellent.
The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public.
- adjective Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- adjective Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- adjective Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- adjective Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- adjective Having scabers.
Similar words
scurfy dirty leprose rough unsmooth scaly lepidote racy scabrate scabrid
Often followed by
and on above or with to details bark awns
Word family
scabrously scabrousness scabrousnesses
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