Word Meanings - UNCOUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Un- not) + c known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and 1. Unknown. "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. Harness

Additional info about word: UNCOUTH

Un- not) + c known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and 1. Unknown. "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish. Chaucer. 3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in guise and gesture." I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. Milton. Syn. -- See Awkward. -- Un*couth"ly, adv. -- Un*couth"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNCOUTH)

• Awkward
• Ungainly
• clownish
• clumsy
• maladroit
• unhandy
• uncouth
• rough
• boorish
• bungling
• gawky
• Barbarous
• Rude
• strange
• uncivilized
• brutal
• cruel
• ferocious
• inhuman
• merciless
• outlandish
• savage
• atrocious
• flagitious
• unfettered
• nefarious
• gross
• Clumsy
• inexpert
• botching
• unskillful
• unwieldly
• ill-shaped
• Gawky
• ungainly
• Impertinent
• shapeless
• unfashioned
• artless
• unpolished
• inelegant
• rustic
• coarse
• vulgar
• raw
• unskilful
• untaught
• illiterate
• ignorant
• uncivil
• saucy
• impolite
• impudent
• insolent
• surly
• churlish
• barbarous
• violent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• Impetuous
• boisterous
• harsh
• inclement
• severe
• Insulting
• grotesque
• barbaric
• archaic

Related words: (words related to UNCOUTH)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET