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- pronunciation:
- uhn
kuth
part of speech: |
adjective |
definition 1: |
lacking manners or refinement; rude, vulgar, or gauche.
His frequent spitting and other uncouth behaviors repulsed her.Her husband had been brought up in the countryside, and her snobbish parents considered him uncouth.- synonyms:
- coarse, gauche, ill-bred, ill-mannered, rude, uncivil, uncultured, vulgar
- antonyms:
- courtly, couth, genteel, respectable, urbane
- similar words:
- boorish, churlish, common, crass, crude, discourteous, impolite, indelicate, raffish, rugged, ungracious, unsophisticated
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definition 2: |
awkward or peculiar in form or appearance.
- synonyms:
- outlandish, weird
- similar words:
- awkward, bizarre, clumsy, odd, peculiar, strange, unconventional, ungainly, ungraceful, unusual
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related words: |
barbarian, barbarous, ignoble, raw, ribald, savage, uncivilized |
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derivations: |
uncouthly (adv.), uncouthness (n.) |
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