Synonyms for uncouth
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Ill-mannered — unrefined, crude
ill-mannered, boorish, vulgar, rude, unrefined, coarse, barbarous, uncivilized, uncivilised UK, uncultured, loutish, crude, impolite, brutish, unseemly, savage, inelegant, barbaric, discourteous, profane, unpolished, rough, clownish
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
- adj. 2
Clumsy, awkward.
- adj. 3
Unrefined, crude.
I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
Related words
- Word family
- unco uncouthly uncouthness
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We apply the term uncouth most frequently to that which results from the want of instruction or training; as, uncouth manners; uncouth language.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- coarse Her skin is coarse from years of working outdoors.
- unrefined I prefer unrefined sugar rather than consuming sweeteners.
- boorish I feel like holding hands now would be incredibly boorish.
- clumsy Her movements were awkward and her gesture clumsy.
- inept They are a bunch of inept and aggressive cretins..
By length
- 3 letters
- odd1
- 4 letters
- rude1, frem
- 5 letters
- weird1, rough1, alien3, crude1, queer1, inept2
- 6 letters
- savage2, vulgar2, coarse1, clumsy2
- 7 letters
- strange1, unusual4, curious3, awkward2, bizarre2, uncanny3, profane2, deviant3, brutish2, boorish2, loutish, unhandy
- 8 letters
- peculiar3, abnormal3, barbaric3, bumbling3, unseemly3, aberrant3, impolite3, freakish, bungling3, clownish
- 9 letters
- irregular4, eccentric3, grotesque2, unrefined3, barbarous3, inelegant, maladroit3
- 10 letters
- outlandish3, uncultured, unpolished
- 11 letters
- uncivilized4, uncivilised
- 12 letters
- discourteous
- 14 letters
- unconventional5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (alien3 = 3 syllables).