earthy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: earth=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

earthy, a. 

•  Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.  [1913 Webster]

  "How pale she looks,
  And of an earthy cold!"  [1913 Webster]

  "All over earthy, like a piece of earth."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy."  [1913 Webster]

  "Earthy spirits black and envious are."  [1913 Webster]
•  Gross; low; unrefined.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

earthy, adj. (earthier, earthiest)
1 of or like earth or soil.
2 somewhat coarse or crude; unrefined (earthy humour).

Derivative

earthily adv. earthiness n.

THESAURUS

earthy

Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass, crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite, fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent, lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy, mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic, reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded, soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic, unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly

ROGET THESAURUS

earthy

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.