earthy
- of the nature of or consisting of earth or soil.
- characteristic of earth: an earthy smell.
- realistic; practical.
- coarse or unrefined: an earthy sense of humor.
- direct; robust; unaffected: an earthy, generous woman.
- (of a mineral) having a dull luster and rough to the touch.
- Archaic. worldly; pertaining to the earth.
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harshness, rawness, smut, roughness, ribaldry, indelicacy, unevenness, bawdiness, crudity, boorishness, callousness, offensiveness, earthinessExamples from the Web for earthiness
Contemporary Examples of earthiness
Outrageousness hums around these women, and an earthiness too: all have survived—and sometimes thrived from—their drama.
Ryan explained: the citrus of Sauvignon Blanc plays off lemon and lime well, but the oak roped in the earthiness of the spinach.
It has an earthiness to it that pairs nicely with mushrooms or other earthy flavors, and it also works well with anything spicy.
Historical Examples of earthiness
She was an Egeria who hovered above him, gently smiling at his earthiness.
The Confounding of CameliaAnne Douglas Sedgwick
His passion is often impious in its earthiness; his yearning, sacrilege.
Paul VerlaineStefan Zweig
In spite of this earthiness, it still has its fanciful abstractions.
Socialism and Democracy in EuropeSamuel P. Orth
I do not really care how the naturalists maltreat language, but I do strenuously object to the earthiness of their ideas.
L-basJ. K. Huysmans
They divest objects of their earthiness by bold simplifications, and transform reality into dreamland.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)Richard Muther
earthy
- of, composed of, or characteristic of earth
- robust, lusty, or uninhibited
- unrefined, coarse, or crude
- an archaic word for worldly (def. 1)
- electrical engineering on the earthed side of an electrical circuit, but not necessarily with a direct current connection to earth