uncouth

1. 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”

   Synonymscoarsecommonrough-cutvulgar

   Similarunrefined

Other forms of uncouth

comparative

uncouther·

superlative

uncouthest·

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.

Questions about uncouth

What does uncouth mean?

uncouth means "lacking refinement or cultivation or taste".

How many syllables are in uncouth?

uncouth has 2 syllables: un-couth. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌnˈkuθ/.

What is another word for uncouth?

Close synonyms include coarse, common, rough-cut, vulgar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uncouth a common word?

uncouth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.