coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)
(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
Antonym: couth (obsolete)
Clumsy, awkward.
Unrefined, crude.
Antonym: couth
• fremd
• impolite
• untouch
Source: Wiktionary
Un*couth", a. Etym: [OE. uncouth, AS. unc unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not) + c known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and cf. Unco, Unked.]
1. Unknown. [Obs.] "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser.
2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [Obs.] Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish. Chaucer.
3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in guise and gesture." I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. Milton.
Syn.
– See Awkward.
– Un*couth"ly, adv.
– Un*couth"ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 March 2025
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”
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