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uncouth

2 syllables
adjective
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As an adjective, uncouth means clumsy, awkward.

Meanings of uncouth

4 meanings

adjective

  1. Clumsy, awkward.

  2. Unrefined, crude.

  3. 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”

    Similar: coarse, common, rough-cut, vulgar
Older and rare meanings (1)

  1. archaicUnfamiliar, strange, foreign.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
coarsecommonrough-cutvulgar

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