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Uncouth

//ʌnˈkuːθ//

Definitions

adjuncouther · more uncouth · uncouthest · most uncouth

1
Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.
Opposite
couth
2
Clumsy, awkward.
Similar
fremd
3
Unrefined, crude.
I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
Similar
impolite aweless improper
Opposite

Word Origin

From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ, from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth. The modern...

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