http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couth 1couth adj \ˈküth\
Definition of COUTH
: sophisticated, polished
Examples of COUTH
<he's remarkably couth for someone who grew up in a small town with limited cultural opportunities>
Origin of COUTH
back-formation from uncouth
First Known Use: 1896
Related to COUTH
Synonyms: accomplished, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined
Antonyms: barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined
Related Words: cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic; bourgeois, middlebrow; educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read; civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred; cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane; hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticatedNear Antonyms: ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered; lowbrow, unintelligent; coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered; backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical); inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated; boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar
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Rhymes with COUTH
booth, crwth, routh, ruth, scouth,
sleuth, sooth, tooth, truth, Truth, youth