Definition of "earthy" in English

adjective

1. Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).

   • The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.

2. Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.

   • She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.

3. (figurative) Coarse and unrefined, crude.

   • earthy humour

4. Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.

5. Covered with earth (mud, dirt).