uncouth adj : lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, vulgar]

English

Etymology

Old English uncūþ, corresponding to un- + couth.

Pronunciation

/ʌnˈku:θ/

• Rhymes: -uːθ

Adjective

en-adj er

1. Unfamiliar, strange, foreign
2. Clumsy, awkward
3. Unrefined, crude.

Translations

• Italian

1. strano
2. goffo
3. rozzo, grossolano

Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crass, crude, cumbersome, curious, deserted, desolate, discourteous, disrespectful, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, eccentric, erratic, farmerish, fingers all thumbs, forsaken, frank, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, gutter, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impermanent, impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, inurbane, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, noncivilized, oafish, odd, oddball, outlandish, ponderous, primitive, quaint, queer, rank, raw, rough, rough-and-ready, rube, rude, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary, stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, wild, yokel, yokelish