COARSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coarsely mean? 

• COARSELY (adverb)
  The adverb COARSELY has 1 sense:

1. in coarse pieces

  Familiarity information: COARSELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COARSELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In coarse pieces

Context example:

the surfaces were coarsely granular

Antonym:

finely (in tiny pieces)

Pertainym:

coarse (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)

 Context examples 

He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his tattered coat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabour me soundly, but they insulted me as coarsely as they could in their little way: especially Celine, who even waxed rather brilliant on my personal defects—deformities she termed them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)