Uncouth vs Underbred - What's the difference?
uncouth | underbred | Synonyms |
(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
* 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
Clumsy, awkward.
Unrefined, crude.
*
(chiefly, horses) of inferior breeding
* {{quote-book, 1902, title=Cross country with horse and hound, author=Frank Sherman Peer
, passage=I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.}}
lacking in manners or finesse
* {{quote-book, 1923, title=
, passage=Himself, he felt the most underbred of all; he was afraid of these Utopians: snobbish and abject before them, he was like a mannerless earthy lout in a drawing-room, and he was bitterly ashamed of his own abjection.}}
Uncouth is a synonym of underbred.
As adjectives the difference between uncouth and underbred
is that uncouth is (archaic) unfamiliar, strange, foreign while underbred is (chiefly|horses) of inferior breeding.uncouth
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.