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uncouth 音標拼音: ['ʌnk'uθ] a. 粗俗的,怪異的 粗俗的,怪異的 uncouth adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; " he had coarse manners but a first- rate mind"; " behavior that branded him as common"; " an untutored and uncouth human being"; " an uncouth soldier-- a real tough guy"; " appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; " the vulgar display of the newly rich" [ synonym: { coarse}, { common}, { rough- cut}, { uncouth}, { vulgar}] Uncouth \ Un* couth"\ ([ u^] n* k[= oo] th"), a. [ OE. uncouth, AS. unc[= u][ eth] unknown, strange: un- ( see { Un-} not) c[= u][ eth] known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See { Can} to be able, and cf. { Unco}, { Unked}.] 1. Unknown. [ Obs.] " This uncouth errand." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. " Uncouth in guise and gesture." -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] I am surprised with an uncouth fear. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Thus sang the uncouth swain. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Awkward}. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Un* couth" ly}, adv. -- { Un* couth" ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 138 Moby Thesaurus words for " uncouth": Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy- fisted, coarse, countrified, country- born, country- bred, crass, crude, cumbersome, curious, deserted, desolate, discourteous, disrespectful, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, eccentric, erratic, farmerish, fingers all thumbs, forsaken, frank, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, gutter, ham- fisted, ham- handed, harsh, hayseed, heavy- handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hulking, hulky, ill- bred, ill- mannered, impermanent, impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, inurbane, left- hand, left- handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, noncivilized, oafish, odd, oddball, outlandish, ponderous, primitive, quaint, queer, rank, raw, rough, rough- and- ready, rube, rude, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary, stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled- for, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy, up- country, vulgar, wild, yokel, yokelish
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