Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Crude; unrefined.
  • adjective Awkward or clumsy; ungraceful.
  • adjective Archaic Foreign; unfamiliar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not known.
  • Not commonly known; not familiar; strange; foreign.
  • Strange and suspicious; uncanny; such as to arouse suspicion, dread, fear, or alarm.
  • Strange and awkward; characterized by awkwardness, clumsiness, or oddity: now the usual meaning: as, uncouth manners or behavior.
  • Not knowing; ignorant.
  • Synonyms . Ungainly, Bungling, etc. See awkward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Unknown.
  • adjective obsolete Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
  • adjective Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
  • adjective Clumsy, awkward.
  • adjective Unrefined, crude.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, unknown, strange, from Old English uncūth : un-, not; see un– + cūth, known; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Old English uncūþ; un- +‎ couth.

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  • "Not stiff with prudence, nor uncouthly wild ..."

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    January 2, 2008

  • So, uncouth means uncouth. Thank you, weirdnet.

    July 7, 2008

  • WeirdNET's cheating, he's been using a dictionary.

    July 7, 2008