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un·couth

uncouth

 
 
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
definition 2: awkward or peculiar in form or appearance.
synonyms:
outlandish, weird
similar words:
awkward, bizarre, clumsy, odd, peculiar, strange, unconventional, ungainly, ungraceful, unusual
derivations: uncouthly (adv.), uncouthness (n.)