Antonyms for uncouth
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-kooth |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkuθ |
Definition of uncouth
Origin :- Old English uncuð "unknown, uncertain, unfamiliar," from un- (1) "not" + cuð "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). Meaning "strange, crude, clumsy" is first recorded 1510s. The compound (and the thing it describes) widespread in IE languages, cf. Latin ignorantem, Old Norse ukuðr, Gothic unkunþs, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."
- adj clumsy, uncultivated
- He was the first tragedian of the Comdie, and the most uncouth man in France or anywhere else.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Their uncouth simplicity was, as they say of wines, their race.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- The sight of these things filled the boy with a respect for the uncouth fellow.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
- For so uncouth a person he was strangely commendable and worthy.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- My own looked so enormous and clumsy and uncouth by comparison.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- For the most part they were heavy, frowsy creatures, slatternly and uncouth.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
- He was certainly not the rough, uncouth man she had expected to find.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
- It brought Pedro in with an extraordinary, uncouth, primeval impetuosity.
- Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
- They are uncouth figures, with vague legends and miscellaneous attributes.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- They were honest, uncouth, simple; they were just like children, the children of the Wild.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
Synonyms for uncouth
- awkward
- barbaric
- boorish
- cheap
- clownish
- coarse
- crass
- crude
- discourteous
- disgracious
- gawky
- graceless
- gross
- heavy-handed
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- impolite
- inelegant
- loud
- loud-mouthed
- loutish
- oafish
- raunchy
- raw
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- strange
- tacky
- uncalled-for
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- ungainly
- ungenteel
- ungentlemanly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- vulgar
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