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Uncouth vs Cultured - What's the difference?

uncouth | cultured |

As adjectives the difference between uncouth and cultured

is that uncouth is unfamiliar, strange, foreign while cultured is learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.

As a verb cultured is

past tense of culture.

uncouth

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
  • * 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
    • There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
  • Clumsy, awkward.
  • Unrefined, crude.
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    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * uncouthness

    cultured

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
  • Artificially developed.
    • cultured voice
    cultured plant

    Synonyms

    * cultivated

    Antonyms

    * uncultured

    Verb

    (head)
  • (culture)