couth
Plural: couths
Adjective Satellite
- (used facetiously) refined
Adj
- Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
- Variant of couthie.
- Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
- Variant of couthie.
- Comfortable; cosy, snug.
- Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined.
Noun
- Refinement, sophistication, or good manners.
- Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
- A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
Adjective
- Cultured, sophisticated, and refined in manner.
Examples
- A player showing real couth in Words With Friends would offer an easy word for their struggling opponent.
- Only a truly couth Scrabble player would know that ’COUTH’ is a valid word.
- That man has no couth.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English couth (“familiar, known; evident, true; famous, respected, well-known; genteel, having good manners”), from Old English cūþ (“familiar, intimate, known, usual; certain, plain, manifest; famous, noted, well-known; excellent; friendly; related”), past participle of cunnan (“to be familiar with, know; can, to be able, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to be familiar with, know, recognize; to be able, know how”) (compare *kunþaz (“known”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). The word is cognate with Dutch kond (“known”), Saterland Frisian cut (“known”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (kunþs, “known”), Icelandic kuður, kunnur (“known”), Latin gnosco (“to know”), Old High German kund, chund, chunt, Middle High German kunt (modern German kund (“known”)), Old Saxon kūth, cûth, cuð (“known; famous, renowned”), Scots couth (“familiar, known”); and is a doublet of could.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
couth: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcouth: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
couth: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary