uncouth
Adjective Satellite
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- "an untutored and uncouth human being"
- "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"
Adj
- Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
- Clumsy, awkward.
- Unrefined, crude.
Adjective
- Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
Examples
- His opponent’s UNCOUTH habit of rearranging tiles loudly was quite distracting during the Scrabble game.
- I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ, from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth. The modern pronunciation does not show /aʊ/, the usual development of the Middle English vowel from the Great Vowel Shift. It is usually explained as a pronunciation taken from Northern English dialects, which did not undergo the diphthongization of the vowel.
Synonyms
coarse, common, rough-cut, vulgar, aweless, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious, churlish, crude, discourteous, fremd, gauche, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incivil, insolent, lack-grace, mismannered, rantipole, rough, rude, uncivil, uncourteous, uncouth, uncultured, underbred, unmannerly, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
uncouth: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worduncouth: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
uncouth: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary