UNCOUTH

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

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Etymology

Adjective

uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)

(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

Antonym: couth (obsolete)

Clumsy, awkward.

Unrefined, crude.

Antonym: couth

Synonyms

• fremd

• impolite

Anagrams

• untouch

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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