Uncouth

Definition: Uncouth

Uncouth

Adjective

1. 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".

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Date "uncouth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Uncouth

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Uncouth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Still from each fact, with skill uncouth And savage rapture, like a tooth She wrenched some slow reluctant truth

Cochepaille was not less uncouth than the accused, and appeared still more stupid

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, Hick, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, rough, unhewn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏غير مألوف (novel, uncommon, unfamiliar, uninhabitable), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, vulgar), ‏جلف (blunt, boorish, coarse, crude, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, rough, roughneck, rude, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, wild), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, unpitying, unseasoned), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, wild and woolly), нешлифован, необичаен (abnormal, bastard, exceeding, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outlandish, rare, special, unaccustomed, uncanny, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted), непохватен (artless, awkward, bumbling, chuckle, clumsy, gawky, heavy, lubberly, two-fisted, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful), неизвестен (nameless, obscure, recondite, strange, suspensive, unbeknown, undiscovered, unfamiliar, unidentified, unknown, unnoted), недодялан (coarse, countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, unfinished, unlicked, unrefined, wild and woolly, zizzi), пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, wild, yeasty), примитивен (barbaric, primary, primitive, pristine, rude, wild and woolly). (various references)

Czech

oplzlý (bawdy, dirty, gross, impure, lewd, obscene, salacious, scurrilous, vile), neslušný (discourteous, immodest, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, misbecoming, obscene, rude, unbecoming, uncivil, unpresentable, unseemly, unsuitable), neotesaný (churlish, coarse, common, gross, ignorant, loutish, rugged), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Farsi 

نامربوط (Disjointed, Inconsequential, Irrelevant), ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Unkempt), ناسترده (Unkempt), ژولیده (Disheveled, Draggy, Ragamuffin, Slovenly, Unkempt), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome). (various references)

French

incongru, grossier (uncivil, unparliamentary, unrefined, unwrought), fruste. (various references)

German

ungeschliffen (blunt, ignorant, inelegant, uncut, undressed, uneducated, unpolished), ungehobelt (boorish, coarsely, crude, crudely, ignorant, ignorantly, mannerless, Randy, rough, rough and ready!, unceremonious, unplaned, unpolished), unflätig (bawdy, foul-mouthed, nasty, obscene, offensive, offensively, rude, vile), unfein (disreputable, gross, indelicate, low-bred, unceremonious, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracefully, unrefined, unsavory, unsavoury), unbeholfen (awkward, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, gawky, helpless, inept, putter, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unskillful, unskillfully, unwieldy, wooden), pöbelhaft (vulgar), ordinär (cheap, common, crudely, low, low-bred, ordinary, regular, tacky, vulgar), grob (abrupt, abusive, blunt, bluntly, bold, boorish, broad, broadly, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, glaring, gross, gruffly, harsh, heavy, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, rugged, tough, truculently, unsubtle), flegelhaft (boorish, boorishly, churlish, churlishly, loutish, oafish), derb (bawdy, blue, broad, coarse, crude, crudely, earthy, inelegant, inelegantly, rank, raw, ribald, sanguinary, stout, strong, tough). (various references)

Greek 

άξεστοσ (boor, boorish, crude, lout, raw, rough, unpolished, unrefined), άξεστος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ושם (awkward, burly, clown, clumsy, gawky, gross, hulking, ungainly, unwieldy). (various references)

Hungarian

faragatlan (boorish, churlish, earthy, hairy-heeled, homespun, ill bred, loutish, rough-hewn, rude, rugged, tacky, unframed, unhewn). (various references)

Italian

rozzo (boorish, churlish, coarse, crude, cubbish, impolite, loutish, rank, rough, rude, rugged, unmannerly, unsubtle), grottesco (antic, grotesque), goffo (awkward, clumsy, cubbish, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, hobbledehoy, maladroit, oafish, ungainly, unhandy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

野性　 (rough, wild nature), 野性 (rough, unpolished, wild), 無様 (clumsy, unpresentable, unshapely, unsightly), 泥臭い (smelling of mud or earth, unrefined), 武骨 (brusque, clumsy), 不様 (clumsy, unpresentable, unshapely, unsightly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶざま (clumsy, unpresentable, unshapely, unsightly), ぶ�"つ (boorish, brusque, clumsy, rustic, unrefined), どろくさい (smelling of mud or earth, unrefined), やせい (rough, unpolished, wild). (various references)

Manx

troggit er ny sleityn, garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar). (various references)

Pig Latin

outhuncay.(various references)

Portuguese

tosco (bumbling, cloddish, clumsy, crude, gross, harsh, rugged, unhewn), rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, underbred, yokel), pedante (bumbling, cloddish, donnish, pedant, pedantic, prig, priggish, square-toed, wiseacre), inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, larrikin, low-brow, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden), canhestro (bumbling), bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, larrikin, lawless, low-lived, ruffianly, tramontane, truculent, uncivilized, wild). (various references)

Romanian

straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, unearthly, weird, whimsical), stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), necivilizat (hottentot, savage), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, unmannerly, unpolished, with the bark on), neîndemânatic (awkward, awkwardly, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, ungainly, unskilful, unversed), grobian (bear, boorish, brutal, brute, coarse, uncivil), fãrã confort, ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, unusual, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Russian 

грубоватый (bluff, clodhopper, gruff), неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), неотесанный (bearish, chaw-bacon, clownish, coarse grained, loutish, low-bred). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prostački (chuffed, countrified, grossly, hillbilly, ignoble, low down, low-lived, villainous, vulgar), neotesan (bluff, boorish, hardfisted, ill mannered, impolite, inurbane, low-browed, mucker, unhewn). (various references)

Spanish

tosco (boorish, clumsy, coarse, crude, earthy, hulking, raw, rough, rude, rugged). (various references)

Swedish

ouppfostrad (artless, ill bred, ill-behaved, ill-bred, low-bred, mannerless), okultiverad (artless, illiberal, lowbrow, low-browed, uncivilised, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated), ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), ofin, obildad (bookless, ignorant, illiterate, letterless, lowbrow, low-browed, rude, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, untaught), klumpig (awkward, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Turkish

tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, unusual, weird, whimsical), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hoyrat (boorish, flat-footed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, loutish, rough, rustic, vulgar), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, underbred, unmannerly), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), занедбаний (desolate, forsaken, godforsaken, neglected, shabby, uncared for). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không quen thuộc (uncustomary), chưa từng thấy. (various references)

Welsh

sgaprwth (rough), anfanol (rough). (various references)

barbarus, durus, inculta, pilosae, pilosam, pilosi, pilosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "uncouth": uncouthly, uncouthness, uncouthnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Uncouth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unclouth, uncooth, uncoothe, uncoth, uncough. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tuchun.

-2 letters: count, couth, notch, touch, uncut.

-3 letters: chon, hunt, ouch, thou, unco, unto.

-4 letters: con, cot, cut, hon, hot, hun, hut, noh, not, nth, nut, out, tho, ton, tun.

-5 letters: ho, no, nu, oh, on, to, uh, un, ut.

+1 letter: outpunch.

+2 letters: cothurnus, uncouthly, untouched.

+3 letters: outpunched, outpunches.

+4 letters: outpunching, uncouthness, unretouched, untouchable.

+5 letters: counterpunch, thundercloud, untouchables.