uncouth
11uncouth — [[t]ʌ̱nku͟ːθ[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe a person as uncouth, you mean that their behaviour is rude, noisy, and unpleasant. ...that oafish, uncouth person. Syn: coarse …
12uncouth — [OE] Uncouth originally meant ‘unknown’ or ‘unfamiliar’ – a sense which survived into the 17th century (‘Now the whole superficies of the earth as well uncouth as discovered, is but a little point’, John Boys, Works 1616). ‘Crude, awkward’ is a… …
13uncouth — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English uncūth, from un + cūth familiar, known; akin to Old High German kund known, Old English can know more at can Date: before 12th century 1. a. archaic not known or not familiar to one ; seldom… …
14uncouth — adjective behaving and speaking in a way that is rude or socially unacceptable: rough, uncouth men uncouthly adverb uncouthness noun (U) …
15uncouth — adjective I was hoping you d be less uncouth in public Syn: uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, bush league, common, plebeian, low, rough, rough hewn, coarse, loutish, boorish, oafish, troglodyte;… …
16uncouth — un•couth [[t]ʌnˈkuθ[/t]] adj. 1) lacking manners or grace; clumsy; oafish 2) cvs rude, uncivil, or boorish: uncouth language[/ex] 3) strange and ungraceful in appearance or form • Etymology: bef. 900; ME: unfamiliar, unknown; OE uncūth=un un… …
17uncouth — adjective /ʌnˈkuːθ/ a) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign. b) Clumsy, awkward …
18uncouth — Synonyms and related words: Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered,… …
19uncouth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. boorish, rude, crude, common, vulgar, uncultivated; ill mannered, clumsy; strange, unusual; awkward, gauche, ungraceful. See vulgarity, inelegance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ungainly, clumsy,… …
20uncouth — un|couth [ʌnˈku:θ] adj [: Old English; Origin: uncuth, from un + cuth known, familiar ] behaving and speaking in a way that is rude or socially unacceptable >uncouthly adv >uncouthness n [U] …
