uncouth

English

Etymology

Old English uncūþ; un- +‎ couth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkuːθ/

  Rhymes: -uːθ

Adjective

uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)

1. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
   • 1819: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (The Voyage)

     There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.

2. Clumsy, awkward.
3. Unrefined, crude.

Derived terms

• uncouthness

Translations

unfamiliar, strange, foreign

• Finnish: outo (fi)
• German: fremd, fremdartig, sonderbar
• Italian: strano (it)

• Norwegian: underlig (no)
• Russian: необычный (ru) (neobýčnyj)

clumsy, awkward

• Finnish: kömpelö (fi)
• German: tölpelhaft, schwerfällig
• Italian: goffo (it)
• Norwegian: keitete, klossete

• Russian: неуклюжий (ru) (neukljúžij), неловкий (ru) (nelóvkij), неповоротливый (ru) (nepovorótlivyj)

unrefined, crude

• Arabic: فَظُّ (fuẓẓ)
• Armenian: բռի (bṙi)
• Finnish: karkea (fi), tökerö
• French: rustre (fr) m, f
• German: grobschlächtig, tumb
• Greek: άξεστος (el) m (áxestos)
• Hungarian: faragatlan (hu), csiszolatlan (hu)

• Italian: rozzo (it), grossolano, grezzo (it) m
• Maori: mohoao, mohowao, tūhourangi
• Norwegian: ukultivert
• Russian: грубый (ru) (grúbyj), неотёсанный (ru) (neotjósannyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gràisgeil
• Swedish: ohyfsad (sv), ofin (sv)