clownish

clownish

adjective

Definition of CLOWNISH

having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners <the clownish antics of some of the teenagers at the wedding reception>

Synonyms boorish, churlish, classless, cloddish, loutish, uncouth

Related Words coarse, ill-bred, uncultivated, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated; tasteless, vulgar; beastly, bestial; doltish, oafish, stupid; discourteous, impolite, mannerless, misleared [chiefly Scottish], rude, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly; awkward, ungainly

Near Antonyms couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated, well-bred; classy, courtly, genteel, gentlemanly, ladylike; civil, courteous, polite