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uncouth adjective [ ʌnˈkuːθ ]

• lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
• "he is unwashed, uncouth, and drunk most of the time"
Similar: uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, common, low, plebeian, philistine, rough, coarse, provincial, rustic, crude, gross, loutish, hooligan, boorish, oafish, Neanderthal, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, bearish, primitive, savage, churlish, uncivil, rude, impolite, discourteous, disrespectful, unmannerly, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, ill-bred, indecorous, ungallant, ungentlemanly, unladylike, vulgar, crass, indelicate, offensive, backwoods, hillbilly, hick, yobbish, slobbish, clodhopping,
Opposite: refined, cultivated, polite,
• (of a place) wild, remote, or spartan.
• "his uncouth cell in Fleet prison"
Origin: Old English uncūth ‘unknown’, from un-1 ‘not’ + cūth (past participle of cunnan ‘know, be able’).


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