'Uncouth' definitions:
Definition of 'uncouth'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, uncouth, vulgar]
Definition of 'Uncouth'
From: GCIDE
- Uncouth \Un*couth"\ ([u^]n*k[=oo]th"), a. [OE. uncouth, AS. unc[=u][eth] unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not) + c[=u][eth] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thus sang the uncouth swain. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Awkward. [1913 Webster] -- {Un*couth"ly}, adv. -- {Un*couth"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uncouth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Doric,
- dysphemistic,
- earthy,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- farmerish,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forsaken,
- frank,
- from the sticks,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- Gothic,
- 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,
- Neanderthal,
- 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