earthy

The word “earthy” has 2 syllables: earth-y

It's pronounced as /ˈɜːrθi/


What is synonym and antonym for earthy?

In the thesaurus, “earthy” has 69 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for earthy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for earthy

  • bawdy
  • bottom-line
  • clayey
  • coarse
  • commonsensical
  • crude
  • cynical
  • disillusioned
  • distrustful
  • down
  • down and dirty
  • down home
  • down-to-earth
  • dull
  • dusty
  • earthlike
  • easygoing
  • folksy
  • funky
  • grounded
  • hard
  • hard-boiled
  • hard-edged
  • hardheaded
  • home folk
  • homely
  • homey
  • idealless
  • indelicate
  • levelheaded
  • loamy
  • logical
  • lowbred
  • lusty
  • matter-of-fact
  • misanthropic
  • mistrustful
  • muddy
  • mundane
  • natural
  • no-nonsense
  • pessimistic
  • philistine
  • practical
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • rational
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • ribald
  • robust
  • rough
  • sandy
  • sane
  • sensible
  • silty
  • simple
  • skeptical
  • sober
  • sobersided
  • sound
  • suspicious
  • tough-minded
  • unidealistic
  • uninhibited
  • unrefined
  • unromantic
  • unsentimental
  • utilitarian

Antonyms for earthy

Meanings of earthy

  • adjective
    1. Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
    2. Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
    3. Coarse and unrefined, crude.
    4. Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
    5. Covered with earth (mud, dirt).

Example Sentences

  • The farmer's hands bore the earthy scent of freshly tilled soil.
  • The chef created a delicious stew with an earthy mix of vegetables.
  • Her paintings often featured warm, earthy tones inspired by nature.
  • The rustic cabin exuded an earthy charm with its wooden furnishings.
  • The wine connoisseur appreciated the earthy undertones in the red wine.

On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to earthy, such as: bawdy, blue-sky, bottom-line, cheerful, clayey, coarse, commonsensical.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

bald

  • antiseptic
  • apparent
  • appreciable
  • au naturel
  • austere
  • bald-faced
  • baldheaded
  • bare
  • barefaced
  • barren
  • black-and-white
  • bleak
  • blunt
  • bright-line
  • broad
  • clean
  • clean-cut
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • cognizable
  • cognoscible
  • comprehendible
  • comprehensible
  • conservative
  • crystal clear
  • decided
  • decipherable
  • denuded
  • depilated
  • digestible
  • direct
  • discernable
  • discernible
  • displayed
  • disrobed
  • distinct
  • divested
  • downright
  • earthy
  • elemental
  • evident
  • explicit
  • exposed
  • fair
  • fathomable
  • forthright
  • furless
  • glabrous
  • graspable
  • hairless
  • head
  • homely
  • honest
  • inconspicuous
  • intelligible
  • knowable
  • legible
  • lucid
  • luculent
  • luminous
  • manifest
  • minimalist
  • modest
  • muted
  • naked
  • natural
  • nonambiguous
  • noticeable
  • observable
  • obvious
  • open
  • open-and-shut
  • outright
  • overt
  • palpable
  • patent
  • peeled
  • pellucid
  • perceptible
  • perspicuous
  • plain
  • plain-vanilla
  • quiet
  • readable
  • recognizable
  • restrained
  • revealed
  • ringing
  • self-evident
  • self-explanatory
  • sensible
  • severe
  • shaven
  • simple
  • skin head
  • skinned
  • smooth
  • sober
  • spartan
  • stark
  • straight
  • straightforward
  • stripped
  • subdued
  • tangible
  • tidy
  • transparent
  • trenchant
  • unadorned
  • unambiguous
  • unambivalent
  • unclad
  • unclothed
  • uncomplicated
  • uncovered
  • undecorated
  • understandable
  • understated
  • undisguised
  • undressed
  • unembellished
  • unequivocal
  • unmistakable
  • unobtrusive
  • unornamented
  • unpretentious
  • unprotected
  • unsophisticated
  • unvarnished
  • visible
  • well-defined

banausic

  • accessible
  • acquisitive
  • actionable
  • active
  • alive
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • applicable
  • applicative
  • applied
  • arid
  • available
  • banal
  • blah
  • bland
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • busy
  • carnal
  • civil
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • dim
  • dime a dozen
  • down-to-earth
  • drab
  • dreary
  • droning
  • dull
  • dull as dishwater
  • earthly
  • earthly-minded
  • earthy
  • employed
  • everyday
  • flat
  • flat as pancake
  • fleshly
  • formal
  • functional
  • functioning
  • garden-variety
  • greedy
  • handy
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inane
  • insipid
  • jejune
  • labored
  • lay
  • lifeless
  • material
  • materialistic
  • mediocre
  • monotone
  • monotonous
  • mortal
  • mundane
  • nonsacred
  • nonspiritual
  • nothing
  • object-oriented
  • obtainable
  • operating
  • operative
  • ordinary
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • physical
  • platitudinous
  • plodding
  • ponderous
  • possessive
  • practicable
  • practical
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • profane
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • puts one to sleep
  • reachable
  • recurrent
  • reiterated
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • samely
  • secular
  • sensual
  • serviceable
  • sing-song
  • soporific
  • staid
  • stodgy
  • subcelestial
  • sublunary
  • tedious
  • temporal
  • terrestrial
  • tiresome
  • toneless
  • treadmill
  • truistic
  • turgid
  • ultrapractical
  • unchanged
  • unchanging
  • unexciting
  • unhallowed
  • uniform
  • unimaginative
  • uninflected
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unrelieved
  • unsacred
  • unsanctified
  • unspiritual
  • unvaried
  • unvarying
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • utilitarian
  • vanilla
  • wearisome
  • wearying
  • weighty
  • white-bread
  • wishy-washy
  • workable
  • working
  • yawn producing

bare

  • abandoned
  • absent
  • absolute
  • acknowledge
  • admit
  • advertise
  • all-out
  • alone
  • announce
  • antiseptic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • au naturel
  • austere
  • available
  • avow
  • bald
  • bankrupt
  • bareskinned
  • barren
  • basic
  • bereft
  • betray
  • blab
  • blank
  • blaze
  • bleak
  • blunt
  • bottomless
  • bring out
  • bring to light
  • broadcast
  • chaste
  • clean
  • clear
  • cold
  • communicate
  • concede
  • confess
  • confide
  • conservative
  • debunk
  • declare
  • deficient
  • denuded
  • depleted
  • desert
  • deserted
  • desolate
  • destitute
  • devoid
  • disclose
  • discover
  • disinter
  • displayed
  • disrobed
  • divested
  • divulge
  • drained
  • dry
  • earthy
  • elemental
  • emptied
  • empty
  • essential
  • exhausted
  • exhibit
  • expose
  • exposed
  • forsaken
  • forthright
  • fragmental
  • fragmentary
  • free
  • furless
  • give away
  • hairless
  • hard
  • hollow
  • homely
  • honest
  • impart
  • in the altogether
  • in the buff
  • in the nude
  • in the raw
  • incomplete
  • inconspicuous
  • inform
  • innocent
  • insufficient
  • lacking
  • leak
  • literal
  • lone
  • meager
  • mean
  • mere
  • minimalist
  • missing
  • modest
  • mother-naked
  • muted
  • naked
  • natural
  • nude
  • only
  • open
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • own
  • partial
  • peeled
  • placard
  • plain
  • plain-vanilla
  • poor
  • post
  • proclaim
  • promulgate
  • publicize
  • publish
  • pure
  • quiet
  • rake up
  • raw
  • relate
  • restrained
  • reveal
  • revealed
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • seminude
  • severe
  • share
  • shaven
  • sheer
  • shorn
  • short
  • show
  • show up
  • simple
  • singular
  • skinned
  • smoke out
  • sober
  • sole
  • solitary
  • solo
  • sound
  • spare
  • spartan
  • spill
  • squeal
  • stark
  • stark naked
  • starkers
  • stripped
  • subdued
  • talk
  • tell
  • toom
  • topless
  • total
  • unadorned
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unattended
  • unbosom
  • unclad
  • uncloak
  • unclothe
  • unclothed
  • uncover
  • uncovered
  • undecorated
  • understated
  • undrape
  • undressed
  • unearth
  • unembellished
  • unfilled
  • unfurnished
  • uninhabited
  • unique
  • unmask
  • unmitigated
  • unobtrusive
  • unoccupied
  • unornamented
  • unpretentious
  • unprotected
  • unqualified
  • unrobed
  • unroll
  • unsophisticated
  • unvarnished
  • unveil
  • unveiled
  • utter
  • vacant
  • vacated
  • vacuous
  • very
  • void
  • wanting

coarsely

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abrasive
  • abusive
  • animallike
  • artlessly
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • barbarously
  • bargain-basement
  • barnyard
  • bawdy
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • blue
  • bluntly
  • boorish
  • boorishly
  • brazenly
  • broad
  • broken
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • bumpy
  • burred
  • cacophonous
  • cawing
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheesy
  • choked
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • coarse-grained
  • common
  • contemptuously
  • counterfeit
  • countrified
  • countryfied
  • cracked
  • crappy
  • crass
  • crassly
  • croaking
  • croaky
  • crude
  • crudely
  • curtly
  • cut-rate
  • debasing
  • depraved
  • dirty
  • discordant
  • discourteously
  • disgusting
  • disrespectfully
  • dissonant
  • distasteful
  • earthy
  • el cheapo
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fake
  • filthy
  • flashy
  • foul
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • graceless
  • grained
  • grainy
  • granular
  • granulated
  • grating
  • gravel
  • gravelly
  • grinding
  • gritty
  • gross
  • growling
  • growly
  • gruff
  • gutter
  • guttural
  • hard-core
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • ill-bred
  • illiberal
  • immodest
  • imprudently
  • impure
  • inconsiderate
  • incult
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indecorously
  • indelicate
  • indifferent
  • inelegant
  • inexact
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • inharmonious
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insolently
  • irregular
  • jagged
  • jarring
  • junky
  • kibbled
  • kinky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knobbly
  • knobby
  • knurled
  • knurly
  • lackluster
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • lopsided
  • louche
  • loudly
  • lousy
  • loutish
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumpish
  • lumpy
  • mannerless
  • mealy
  • mediocre
  • meretricious
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nonuniform
  • nubbly
  • nubby
  • oafish
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • ostentatious
  • pebbly
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitted
  • pocked
  • poor
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • provincial
  • racy
  • raffish
  • ragged
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • raucous
  • raunchy
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • ribald
  • rocky
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • roughened
  • roughly
  • roughneck
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rudely
  • rugged
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • rusty
  • rutted
  • rutty
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sandpapery
  • sandy
  • sassily
  • scatological
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scraggly
  • scraggy
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • screeching
  • scurrilous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • sham
  • sharply
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • smutty
  • snootily
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • splashy
  • squawking
  • stag
  • stoney
  • stony
  • strained
  • strangled
  • strident
  • suggestive
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tacky
  • tactlessly
  • tasteless
  • tawdry
  • terrible
  • thoughtless
  • throaty
  • trashy
  • trumpery
  • ultracheap
  • unabashedly
  • unacceptable
  • unaligned
  • unbalanced
  • unbecoming
  • uncivilized
  • uncivilly
  • uncouth
  • uncouthly
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undesirable
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • uneven
  • unfiltered
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungraciously
  • unmannered
  • unmannerly
  • unmelodious
  • unmusical
  • unpleasant
  • unpolished
  • unprintable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wanton
  • wavy
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched

debasing

  • X-rated
  • abasement
  • abashing
  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • adult
  • affronting
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • awkward
  • backbiting
  • bad name
  • bad odor
  • bad-mouthing
  • barbaric
  • baseness
  • bastardizing
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedroom
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • beneath one
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blemishing
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • brazen
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • coarse
  • comedown
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contempt
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • contumely
  • corrupt
  • corrupting
  • corruption
  • criminal
  • criticizing
  • crude
  • crying down
  • culpability
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasement
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degradation
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denigrating
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciating
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • descending
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • difficult
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirty
  • dirtying
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disbarment
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discredit
  • discrediting
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonor
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • disrepute
  • disrespect
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dust
  • earthy
  • egregious
  • embarrassing
  • erotic
  • erotical
  • execrating
  • false
  • fazing
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flagrant
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • foul
  • fouling
  • gross
  • hard-core
  • harming
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • humiliation
  • hurting
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • immodest
  • impairing
  • impossible
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • inexpedient
  • infamous
  • infamy
  • infra indignitatem
  • ingloriousness
  • inhuman
  • iniquitous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • intolerable
  • invective
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • kinky
  • lascivious
  • lessening
  • lewd
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • loss of honor
  • lowering
  • lustful
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • maligning
  • marring
  • mature
  • meanness
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notorious
  • obloquy
  • obscene
  • odious
  • odium
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • opprobrium
  • pejorative
  • perverted
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pollution
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • prostitution
  • prurient
  • put down
  • putting down
  • racy
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reviling
  • ribald
  • ridiculing
  • rude
  • ruining
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalous
  • scorn
  • scurrilous
  • sexy
  • shadow
  • shame
  • shameless
  • shaming
  • shocking
  • sinful
  • sinking
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slight
  • slighting
  • slur
  • smirch
  • smirching
  • smutty
  • soft-core
  • spiteful
  • spoiling
  • spot
  • stain
  • staining
  • stigma
  • subverting
  • suggestive
  • taint
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnish
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • traducing
  • troublesome
  • truculent
  • turpitude
  • unbearable
  • unbecoming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncomplimentary
  • ungodly
  • unpleasant
  • unprintable
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • untrue
  • unwieldy
  • unworthy of one
  • venality
  • vile
  • vilifying
  • villainous
  • violent
  • vitiating
  • vitriolic
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wrecking
  • writing off

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