sca´brous|ness

sca´brous|ness: sca|brous «SKAY bruhs», adjective.

1. rough with very small points or projections: »scabrous skin.
SYNONYM(S): scraggly.

2. full of difficulties; harsh; thorny: »scabrous questions, a scabrous situation.

3. hard to treat with decency; indelicate; risqué: »The inhabitants mix, mate, and mismate in a series of scabrous sexual exercises (Time).

╂[< Late Latin scabrōsus < Latin scaber scaly, related to scabere to scratch, scrape]

–sca´brous|ly, adverb.

–sca´brous|ness, noun.

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sca´brous|ly — sca|brous «SKAY bruhs», adjective. 1. rough with very small points or projections: »scabrous skin. SYNONYM(S): scraggly. 2. full of difficulties; harsh; thorny: »scabrous questions, a scabrous situation. 3. hard to treat with decency; … Useful english dictionary
sca|brous — «SKAY bruhs», adjective. 1. rough with very small points or projections: »scabrous skin. SYNONYM(S): scraggly. 2. full of difficulties; harsh; thorny: »scabrous questions, a scabrous situation. 3. hard to treat with decency; … Useful english dictionary
Scabrousness — Sca brous*ness, n. The quality of being scabrous. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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