Uncouth

a.	1.	Unknown. 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 rich. - Chaucer.
	3.	Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. - Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. - Milton.

Adj.

1.

uncouth - 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" Synonyms: rough-cut, vulgar, coarse, common

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, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crass, cumbersome, curious, deserted, desolate, 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, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, impermanent, 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, rough-and-ready, rube, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary, stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt, unlicked, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy, up-country, wild, yokel, yokelish

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