Thesaurus: uncouth

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1. a. Unknown.
2. a. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
3. a. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.
4. adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
5. 1. Unknown. [Obs.] "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. [Obs.] 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.
6. j:100 s lacking refinement or cultivation or taste