roughneck

Synonyms

gangster, goon, gorilla, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, punk, rowdy, ruffian, tough;

Related Words

cutthroat, scoundrel, villain;

assassin, bandit, bravo, brigand, criminal, crook, desperado, felon, gunman, highwayman, lawbreaker, mafioso, malefactor, offender, outlaw, perp, perpetrator, pirate;

pickpocket, racketeer, robber, swindler, thief, vandal;

Synonyms

coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar;

Antonyms

civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, smooth, tasteful, ultrarefined, well-bred;

Near Antonyms

aristocratic, courtly, patrician;

elegant, graceful, restrained;

considerate, gracious, sensitive, thoughtful;

citified, sophisticated, urbane;

Related Words

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, loutish, ungentlemanly;

clumsy, lubberly, lumpish, oafish;

inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, thoughtless;

countrified (also countryfied), provincial, rustic (also rustical), unsophisticated;

graceless, inelegant, tacky;

animallike, barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized;

mannerless, unmannered, unmannerly;