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uncooth

uncooth is the misspelling of uncouth.

Meaning of uncouth

Adjective

uncouth (comparative uncouther or more uncouth, superlative uncouthest or most uncouth)

  1. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
    • If this uncouth
      forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or
      bring it for food to thee.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    alien, uncanny, weird, fremd, aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky
    Antonyms:
    couth
  2. Clumsy, awkward.
    Synonyms:
    bumbling, inept
  3. Unrefined, crude.
    • I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
    Antonyms:
    couth

Questions about uncooth

What is uncooth the misspelling of?
Uncooth is the misspelling of uncouth.

Words near uncooth in the dictionary

  1. uncoopted
  2. uncoordinated
  3. uncoordinatedly
  4. uncoordinatedness
  5. uncoordination
  6. uncooth
  7. uncope
  8. uncoped
  9. uncopes
  10. uncopiable
  11. uncopied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncooth (page history and authors); uncouth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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