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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

not genteel, or polite, refined, or respectable;

e.g. He was crude and terse and ungenteel.

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Similar Words

Awkward

Backwoods

Barbaric

Barbarous

Barred

Baseborn

Bastard

Boorish

Casual

Churlish

Clownish

Coarse

Common

Crude

Degraded

Forbidden

Gauche

Grungy

Humble

Ignoble

Ignorant

Ill-bred

Ill-mannered

Illegitimate

Illiterate

Improper

Inappropriate

Incorrect

Indecent

Indecorous

Indelicate

Inelegant

Inferior

Informal

Intolerable

Junior

Knavish

Low

Lowbrow

Lower-class

Lowly

Mean

Ordinary

Philistine

Plain

Plebeian

Polyester

Provincial

Rustic

Seedy

Shabby

Subordinate

Unacceptable

Unbecoming

Uncivilized

Uncouth

Uncultured

Uneducated

Ungraceful

Unlettered

Unpolished

Unrefined

Unsatisfactory

Unseemly

Unsophisticated

Vulgar

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Opposite Words

Acceptable

Accomplished

Adequate

Aristocratic

Bourgeois

Civil

Civilized

Comme il faut

Courteous

Couth

Cultivated

Cultured

Dress

Dressy

Elevated

Exalted

Gentle

Gracious

Grand

Great

High

High-toned

Highborn

Highbred

Highbrow

Hypercivilized

Ladylike

Lofty

Noble

Overcivilized

Oversophisticated

Patrician

Polished

Refined

Satisfactory

Silk

Silk-stocking

Superior

Tolerable

Upper

Upper-class

Wellborn

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