clownish

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English clown Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English clownish From clown + -ish.

1. Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.

   “Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.”

   “Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.”

2. Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
3. Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.

   “Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.”

   “"He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."”