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say it: UHN-kooth
uncouth is an adjective meaning "lacking refinement or cultivation or taste". It is pronounced /ˈʌnˈkuθ/ — UHN-kooth. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for uncouth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.