coarsely
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4.2
- adverb
- /ˈkɔrsli/
:
gruesamente
- Traditionally, grains were coarsely and crudely ground, whereas modern food technology allows for a highly pulverized flour.
Examples
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For color, they'll wedge in mineral impurities, coarsely or finely ground.
Fiction book (1998) -
Like the bird, which is drawn schematically, the loa's masklike face is composed of coarsely sketched lines.
Academic text (2014) -
Chop coarsely and add to the shallots.
Academic text (1992) -
There are later copies of this type of head that are thicker and more coarsely modeled.
Academic text (1994) -
Neither very tall nor very big, she was wearing a short, plain, coarsely woven tunic.
Fiction book (2001) -
Their stance can be (rather coarsely) summarized: learners want to repeat behaviors that are rewarded and feel good and avoid behaviors that are punished and feel bad.
Academic text (2012) -
Straight to the young persimmon trees she went, three coarsely grained black trunks topped by a blended crown of drooping leaves.
Fiction book (1991) -
In a food processor with the knife blade attached, pulse the bread until coarsely chopped.
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When vegetables are cool enough to handle, cut kernels from cobs and coarsely chop pepper.
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2 small shallots, coarsely chopped; 1 cup each of cilantro, flat-leaf parsley, and mint leaves.
Synonyms
In a rough, grainy way like sand on skin
Antonyms
How Coarse
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coarsely comes from coarse meaning 'rough' or 'not fine', and the ending -ly makes it a word that tells how something is done. Think of 'coarse salt' or 'coarse sandpaper' with big, rough grains, so to do something coarsely is to do it roughly or in large pieces.