Earthy

a.	1.	Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! - Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. - Tennyson.
	2.	Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. - 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. Earthy spirits black and envious are. - Dryden.
	3.	Gross; low; unrefined.
	4.	(Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

Adj.	1.	earthy - conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" Synonyms: crude, coarse, vulgar, gross
	2.	earthy - not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
	3.	earthy - hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
	4.	earthy - sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" Synonyms: down-to-earth

Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, crass, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite, fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent, lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy, mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic, reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded, soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unromantic, unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly

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