There are things I'd like to say but to butt in now would be what they call uncouth.
Source: tatoeba (326755)
Uncouth
//ʌnˈkuːθ//
Synonyms for "uncouth" (192 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (57)
Related words (96)
impurein bad tasteinconcinnateinconcinnousincorrectindecorousindelicateinelegantinfelicitousinurbaneleft handedleft-handleft-handedloutishlowlubberlylumberinglumpenlumpishmaladroit
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Adjective(17 words)
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Translations
115 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βάναυσος adj (unrefined, crude)
Arabic
1 entries- فَظّ adj (unrefined, crude)
Armenian
1 entries- բռի adj (unrefined, crude)
Bulgarian
4 entries- груб adj (unrefined, crude)
- недодялан adj (clumsy, awkward)
- непохватен adj (clumsy, awkward)
- нешлифован adj (unrefined, crude)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 粗野的 adj (unrefined, crude)
- 陌生的 adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Czech
4 entries- hrubý adj (unrefined, crude)
- neomalený adj (unrefined, crude)
- neotesaný adj (unrefined, crude)
- obhroublý adj (unrefined, crude)
Danish
1 entries- underlig adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Finnish
4 entries- epähieno adj (unrefined, crude)
- hienostumaton adj (unrefined, crude)
- hiomaton adj (unrefined, crude)
- karkea adj (unrefined, crude)
French
2 entries- rustre adj (unrefined, crude)
- étranger adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Galician
4 entries- alarbe adj (clumsy, awkward)
- alarbio adj (clumsy, awkward)
- alleo adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- baldragas adj (clumsy, awkward)
German
4 entries- fremd adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- fremdartig adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- grobschlächtig adj (unrefined, crude)
- schwerfällig adj (clumsy, awkward)
Greek
1 entries- άξεστος adj (unrefined, crude)
Hungarian
2 entries- csiszolatlan adj (unrefined, crude)
- faragatlan adj (unrefined, crude)
Irish
4 entries- aibéiseach adj (unrefined, crude)
- amhchaoin adj (unrefined, crude)
- amhlánta adj (unrefined, crude)
- tútach adj (clumsy, awkward)
Italian
4 entries- goffo adj (clumsy, awkward)
- grezzo adj (unrefined, crude)
- grossolano adj (unrefined, crude)
- rozzo adj (unrefined, crude)
Latin
1 entries- horridus adj (unrefined, crude)
Macedonian
4 entries- груб adj (unrefined, crude)
- не́смасен adj (clumsy, awkward)
- нео́бичен adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- су́ров adj (unrefined, crude)
Māori
4 entries- mohoao adj (unrefined, crude)
- mohowao adj (unrefined, crude)
- pakirara adj (unrefined, crude)
- tūhourangi adj (unrefined, crude)
Norwegian
4 entries- keitete adj (clumsy, awkward)
- klossete adj (clumsy, awkward)
- ukultivert adj (unrefined, crude)
- underlig adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Occitan
4 entries- brut adj (unrefined, crude)
- estranh adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- grossièr adj (unrefined, crude)
- ruste adj (unrefined, crude)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بیاغی adj (unrefined, crude)
- یوغون adj (unrefined, crude)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- bollboarich adj (unrefined, crude)
- onbeschläpen adj (unrefined, crude)
Portuguese
4 entries- bruto adj (unrefined, crude)
- desajeitado adj (clumsy, awkward)
- esquisito adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- estranho adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Russian
4 entries- гру́бый adj (unrefined, crude)
- нело́вкий adj (clumsy, awkward)
- необы́чный adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
- неотёсанный adj (unrefined, crude)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gràisgeil adj (unrefined, crude)
Spanish
4 entries- basto adj (unrefined, crude)
- bravío adj (unrefined, crude)
- bruto adj (clumsy, awkward)
- chocarrero adj (unrefined, crude)
Swedish
4 entries- ofin adj (unrefined, crude)
- ohyfsad adj (unrefined, crude)
- ohövlig adj (unrefined, crude)
- underlig adj (unfamiliar, strange, foreign)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
How dare you accuse one of my guests of uncouth behavior?
Source: tatoeba (8762077)
It may be uncouth, but I love to eat peanut butter out of a jar with a spoon.
Source: tatoeba (9453030)
Drawn by some strange force, from the unfathomable depths below, eerie shapes sought the surface, blinking glassily at the unfamiliar glare they had exchanged for their native gloom—uncouth creatures bedight with tasselled fringes like weed-growths waving around them, fathom-long, medusae with coloured spots like eyes clustering all over their transparent substance, wriggling worm-like forms of such elusive matter that the smallest exposure to the sun melted them, and they were not.
Source: tatoeba (10998403)
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