Synonyms of couth

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adjective

as in civilized

having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

he's remarkably couth for someone who grew up in a small town with limited cultural opportunities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• civilized
• cultured
• polished
• polite
• cultivated
• accomplished
• genteel
• educated
• refined
• civil
• scholarly
• literate
• sophisticated
• cerebral
• intellectual
• cosmopolitan
• highbrow
• bourgeois
• urbane
• courteous
• erudite
• mannerly
• high-toned
• intellectualistic
• intellectualist
• knowledgeable
• learned
• well-bred
• middlebrow
• highbrowed
• well-read
• oversophisticated
• hypercivilized
• overcivilized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignorant
• uncivilized
• barbarous
• barbaric
• uncultured
• unrefined
• uneducated
• unpolished
• illiterate
• coarse
• unlettered
• unintelligent
• provincial
• lowbrow
• rustic
• philistine
• ungenteel
• uncouth
• unsophisticated
• backwoods
• crude
• vulgar
• boorish
• inelegant
• ill-bred
• ill-mannered
• churlish
• clownish
• polyester
• rustical
• cloddish

couth

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noun

as in accomplishment

a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts

their future son-in-law's lack of couth was of some concern to this patrician couple

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accomplishment
• civilization
• manners
• culture
• refinement
• education
• cultivation
• literacy
• knowledge
• polish
• civility
• learning
• elegance
• erudition
• scholarship
• urbanity
• intellectuality
• intellectualism
• sophistication
• politeness
• gentility
• cosmopolitanism
• breeding
• taste
• grace
• courtesy
• courteousness
• class
• genteelness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• barbarism
• ignorance
• philistinism
• illiteracy
• rusticity
• provincialism
• barbarianism
• parochialism
• vulgarity
• coarseness
• crudeness
• boorishness
• unsophistication
• churlishness
• clownishness