earthy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
    crude; gross; vulgar.
    • coarse language
    • a crude joke
    • crude behavior
    • an earthy sense of humor
    • a revoltingly gross expletive
    • a vulgar gesture
    • full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
  2. adjective satellite not far removed from or suggestive of nature
    • the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow
    • earthy smells of new-mown grass
  3. adjective satellite hearty and lusty
    • an earthy enjoyment of life
  4. adjective of or consisting of or resembling earth
    • it had an earthy smell
    • only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean
  5. adjective satellite sensible and practical
    down-to-earth.
    • has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem
    • her earthy common sense

WordNet

Earth"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
    How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! Shak.
    All over earthy, like a piece of earth. Tennyson.
  2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. R. "Their earthy charge." Milton.
    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. 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. )
    Earthy spirits black and envious are. Dryden.
  3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands." Shak.
  4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

Webster 1913