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couthless

couthless adjective: uncouth.

Adjective

couthless (comparative more couthless, superlative most couthless)

  1. (obsolete) Uncouth.
    • Half-handed thing with double brain, / With brow protruding all before, / Trachea formed to squeak and roar, / With shortened arms and thumbless feet, / Circular paunch, and rounded seat; / That chattered with such couthless sound, / And walked, not crawled, upon the ground.1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D....

Forms of couthless

comparativemore couthless
superlativemost couthless

Questions about couthless

What does couthless mean?
Couthless means uncouth.
What part of speech is couthless?
Couthless is an adjective.

Words near couthless in the dictionary

  1. couth
  2. couthie
  3. couthier
  4. couthiest
  5. couthiness
  6. couthless
  7. couths
  8. couthy
  9. coutil
  10. coutilier
  11. coutiliers

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