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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
uncouth \uncouth"\ u^nk=ooth", a. oe. uncouth, as.
unc=ueth unknown, strange: un- see un- not +
c=ueth known, p. p. of cunnan to know. see can to be
able, and cf. unco, unked.
1. unknown. obs. "this uncouth errand." --milton.
1913 webster
to leave the good that i had in hand,
in hope of better that was uncouth. --spenser.
1913 webster
2. uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. obs.
1913 webster
harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. --chaucer.
1913 webster
3. unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also,
odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "uncouth in
guise and gesture." --i. taylor.
1913 webster
i am surprised with an uncouth fear. --shak.
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thus sang the uncouth swain. --milton.
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syn: see awkward.
1913 webster -- uncouth"ly, adv. --
uncouth"ness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
un- can unco unked awkward uncouth"ly
uncouth"ness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
uncouth
adj : lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse
manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded
him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being";
"an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to
the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of
the newly rich" syn: coarse, common, rough-cut,
vulgar
see also:
coarse common rough-cut vulgar
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
138 moby thesaurus words for "uncouth":
doric, gothic, neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward,
barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded,
blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling,
butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, churlish, cloddish,
clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified,
country-born, country-bred, crass, crude, cumbersome, curious,
deserted, desolate, discourteous, disrespectful, doggerel,
dysphemistic, earthy, eccentric, erratic, farmerish,
fingers all thumbs, forsaken, frank, from the sticks, fumbling,
gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, gutter, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, harsh, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed,
hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impermanent, impolite,
improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, inurbane,
left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen,
lumpish, maladroit, noncivilized, oafish, odd, oddball, outlandish,
ponderous, primitive, quaint, queer, rank, raw, rough,
rough-and-ready, rube, rude, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary,
stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized,
uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified,
uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt,
unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy,
up-country, vulgar, wild, yokel, yokelish
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