Word Meanings - SURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See Sir, and Like, 1. Arrogant; haughty. Cotgrave. 2. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language;

Additional info about word: SURLY

sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See Sir, and Like, 1. Arrogant; haughty. Cotgrave. 2. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly spirit, melancholy." Shak. 3. Rough; dark; tempestuous. Now softened into joy the surly storm. Thomson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURLY)

• Bluff
• Bare
• open
• bold
• abrupt
• frank
• plain-spoken
• blunt
• surly
• rude
• blustering
• swaggering
• brusque
• hectoring
• coarse
• discourteous
• rough
• bullying
• Gruff
• Rough
• bearish
• harsh
• Morose
• Sullen
• austere
• moody
• crabbed
• crusty
• Rude
• Impertinent
• shapeless
• unfashioned
• artless
• unpolished
• uncouth
• inelegant
• rustic
• vulgar
• clownish
• raw
• unskilful
• untaught
• illiterate
• ignorant
• uncivil
• saucy
• impolite
• impudent
• insolent
• churlish
• brutal
• uncivilized
• barbarous
• savage
• violent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• Impetuous
• boisterous
• inclement
• severe
• Insulting
• grotesque
• barbaric
• archaic

Related words: (words related to SURLY)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET