Scabrous

Definitions: Scabrous

Scabrous

Adjective

1. (biology) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf.

2. Dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel".

Date "scabrous" was first used: 1549. (references)

Etymology: Scabrous \Sca"brous\, adjective. [Latin expression scabrosus, from scaber rough: compare to the French expression scabreux.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Science	Rough to the touch with short, hard emergences or hairs. dim.. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scabrous

Synonyms: lepidote (adj), leprose (adj), scaly (adj), scurfy (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Roughness	Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scabrous

English words defined with "scabrous": Scabrousness. (references)

"Scabrous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scabrous" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

Language		Translations for "scabrous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic		‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian		самогризка, заешки уши. (various references)

Czech		lechtivý (blue, Kittle, off colour, ticklish), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, severe, stark, unkind), delikátní (sensitive). (various references)

Danish		ru (advisory committee, coarse, rough, rugged, Russia, Russian Federation, unmachined). (various references)

Dutch		ruw (abusive, aspero, brute, coarse, crude, crude petroleum, harsh, pretreated crude oil, raw, rough, rugged, unmachined, unrefined). (various references)

Finnish		rosoinen (rough, rugged, uneven), karhea (aspero, harsh, rough). (various references)

French		scabreux, scabre, rugueux. (various references)

German		scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, gassy, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, piquant, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, rough, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), rauh (abrasive, bleak, bleakly, coarse, crude, gnarled, grating, gravelly, gruff, harsh, harshly, hoarse, husky, inclement, inclemently, raucous, raucously, raw, rough, roughly, rugged, scraggly, severe, sore, stark, throatily, throaty, tough, unrefined, unwrought, wild), geschmacklos (cheesy, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, in bad taste, indelicate, indelicately, insipid, low, outrageous, sick, tasteless, tastelessly, tawdry, unflavored, unsavory, unsavoury, vulgar). (various references)

Greek		σκαμπρόζικοσ, απρεπήσ (graceless, impolitic, improper, indecent, indecorous, inept, risque, tactless, unbecoming, uncalled for, undue, unseemly), τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, harsh, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rude, rugged, scraggly, screechy, seamy, throaty, tough), τραχύς (abrasive, gruff, harsh, husky, rough, rugged). (various references)

Hungarian		érdes (choppy, coarse, cragged, harsh, hirsute, hoarse, muddy, ragged, raspy, rough, rugged, rusty, scraggy, scrapy, scratchy). (various references)

Italian		scabro (harsh, hoarse, raucous, raw, rough, terse, throaty), ruvido (aspero, coarse, crabbed, harsh, rough, rugged, scraggy, scratchy, shaggy). (various references)

Pig Latin		abrousscay

Portuguese		áspero (abrupt, acerb, aspero, astringent, bluff, coarse, cornered, gruff, hackly, hard, harsh, his, hoarsen, horrent, inclinable, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scraggy, scratchy, scrawny, seamy, severe, tart). (various references)

Romanian		scabros (nauseating, risky), necuviincios (brazen, disrespectful, disrespectfully, foul, graceless, indecent, indecorous, naughty, obscenely, unbecoming, uncomely), dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, parlous, qualmish, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

Russian		скабрезный (dirty, ribald), шершавый (gritty, rough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neravan (bumpy, cloggy, rough, rugged, uneven), nepristojan (bawdry, bawdy, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, rude, spicy, unbecoming, vulgar), mastan (fat, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, racy, rich, risque, sebaceous, unctuous), hrapav (coarse, cracked, harsh, husky, ragged, rasping, raucous, rough, rugged, scraggy), čvornovat (gnarled, gnarly, knaggy, snaggy, tubercular, tuberous). (various references)

Spanish		escabroso (harsh, jolty, naughty, obscene, ribald, risky, rough, rugged, tough, uneven), aspero (rough, uneven). (various references)

Swedish		sträv (abrasive, bristly, coarse, gruff, harsh, rough), skrovlig (abrasive, craggy, gravelly, hoarse, husky, raucous, rough, rugged), oanständig (bawdy, fie-fie, filthy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, salacious, scurrilous). (various references)

Thai		หยาบ (broad, hackly, indelicate, raw, roughen, tatty). (various references)

Turkish		terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), pul pul (flaked, scaly, squamate, squamous), pürüzlü (granular, jagged, rough, shaggy, uneven), kabuklanmış (scabbed, scabby, scaly), kabuk bağlamış (scabbed, scabby, skinned), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Ukranian		шершавий (coarse, granulated, husky, shaggy), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste). (various references)

Vietnamese		xù xì khó diễn đạt cho thanh nhã, trắc trở. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	scaber, scabrosus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	scabrosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scabrous": scabrously, scabrousness, scabrousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scabrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sabrosa, scaborus, scabratum, Scarbo, Scarbus, scardus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "scabrous" (pronounced 'Sca"brous'): Crebrous, Cumbrous, fibrous, Glabrous, Incumbrous, slumbrous, Sombrous, Subfibrous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: sarcous, soucars.
	-2 letters: across, bursas, carbos, carobs, cobras, scaurs, scours, scrubs, scubas, soucar.
	-3 letters: arcus, ascus, basso, boars, boras, brass, buras, bursa, carbo, carbs, carob, casus, cobra, crabs, crass, cross, curbs, cusso, orcas, saros, scabs, scars, scaur, scour, scrub, scuba, soars, soras, sorbs, sorus, sours, subas, suras.
	-4 letters: abos, arbs, arco, arcs, bars, bass, boar, boas, bora, boss, bras, bros, bura, burs, buss, cabs, carb, cars, cobs, cors, coss, crab, crus, cubs, curb, curs, cuss, oars, ocas, orbs, orca, orcs, osar, ossa, ours, robs, rocs, rubs, sabs, sacs, scab, scar, soar, sobs, sora, sorb, sour, sous, suba, subs, sura, urbs, ursa.
	-5 letters: abo, abs, arb, arc, ars, ass, bar, bas, boa, bos, bra, bro, bur, bus, cab, car, cob, cor, cos, cub, cur, oar, oca, ora, orb, orc, ors, our, ras, rob, roc, rub, sab, sac, sau, sob, sos, sou, sub, urb.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: obscurants, scabrously.
	+3 letters: uncrossable.
	+4 letters: obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, scabrousness, subcontracts, subtractions.
	+5 letters: counterblasts, obscurantisms, obscurantists, ribonucleases, subcategories, subcontraries, subcoriaceous.
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