scabrous

adjective

sca·brous ˈska-brəs

also ˈskā-

Synonyms of scabrous next

: difficult, knotty

a scabrous problem

: rough to the touch: such as

: having small raised dots, scales, or points

a scabrous leaf

: covered with raised, roughened, or unwholesome patches

scabrous paint

scabrous skin

: dealing with suggestive, indecent, or scandalous themes : salacious

also : squalid

scabrously adverb

scabrousness noun

Choose the Right Synonym for scabrous

rough, harsh, uneven, rugged, scabrous mean not smooth or even.

rough implies points, bristles, ridges, or projections on the surface.

a rough wooden board

harsh implies a surface or texture distinctly unpleasant to the touch.

a harsh fabric that chafes the skin

uneven implies a lack of uniformity in height, breadth, or quality.

an old house with uneven floors

rugged implies irregularity or roughness of land surface and connotes difficulty of travel.

a rugged landscape

scabrous implies scaliness or prickliness of surface.

a scabrous leaf

Examples of scabrous in a Sentence

a movie with scabrous humor

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Jacobs wrote the script with these three actors in mind, which was perhaps shocking news to each of them, who play scabrous women who locate the worst characteristics of each other and then blow them up into throwdown fights. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024 In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic. —

Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024 At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated. —

Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024 Malcolm is the pressure-release valve in Baumbach's scabrous follow-up to 2005's The Squid and the Whale, and one of many points of contention between Margot and Pauline. —

Erik Adams, EW.com, 18 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for scabrous