Antonyms for uncouthness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uhn-kooth |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkuθ |
Definition of uncouthness
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."
- As in awkwardness : noun clumsiness; inelegance
- As in illiteracy : noun ignorance
- As in illiterateness : noun ignorance
- As in nescience : noun ignorance
- As in obliviousness : noun ignorance
- As in unawareness : noun ignorance
- As in unconsciousness : noun ignorance
- As in unfamiliarity : noun ignorance
- As in coarseness : noun rudeness, vulgarity
- As in ignorance : noun unintelligence, inexperience
- There was no thought now of his clothes and his uncouthness.
- Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- True, Robert was uncouth, but his uncouthness was that of a half-fledged angel.
- Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald
- The uncouthness which goes with bigness does not repel, it rather attracts.
- Extract from : « Glimpses of Bengal » by Sir Rabindranath Tagore
- Notwithstanding the uncouthness of his garb, his manners were not unpolished.
- Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
- There were strangers in the room, and he was expostulated with for his uncouthness, but in vain.
- Extract from : « Ponkapog Papers » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Their uncouthness of expression stirred their countrymen's laughter.
- Extract from : « The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century » by Charles Bastide
- In Australia, they are turned out while you wait, with all the uncouthness of their fathers.
- Extract from : « The Awful Australian » by Valerie Desmond
- It is true that at first the uncouthness and eccentricity were less prominent.
- Extract from : « The Age of Tennyson » by Hugh Walker
- The roughness had been a little overdone, but it had added nothing to his own uncouthness.
- Extract from : « Ayala's Angel » by Anthony Trollope
- Jacky looked radiant in spite of the uncouthness of her riding attire.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Foss River Ranch » by Ridgwell Cullum
Synonyms for uncouthness
- amateurishness
- artlessness
- bawdiness
- benightedness
- bewilderment
- blindness
- boorishness
- callousness
- callowness
- cloddishness
- coarseness
- crassness
- crudeness
- crudity
- darkness
- denseness
- disregard
- dumbness
- earthiness
- empty-headedness
- fog
- gawkiness
- gracelessness
- greenness
- half-knowledge
- harshness
- ignorance
- illiteracy
- illiterateness
- inability
- incapacity
- incompetence
- incomprehension
- indelicacy
- ineptitude
- ineptness
- inexpertness
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- maladroitness
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oafishness
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- offensiveness
- philistinism
- poor taste
- rawness
- ribaldry
- roughness
- rudeness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- smut
- smuttiness
- tactlessness
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncoordination
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unevenness
- unfamiliarity
- ungainliness
- unrefinement
- unscholarliness
- unskillfulness
- vagueness
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