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uncool

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • Ireland//ʊnˈkuːl//
  • Scotland//ʌnˈkʉl//
  • //ʌnˈkuːl//

Not in accord with the current fashion, standards, or mores of a particular group; not cool.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangNot in accord with the current fashion, standards, or mores of a particular group; not cool.

    It's not the coolest pad in Melbourne. Your presence is enough to make it more than a little uncool.

    Now it is nineteen eighty-four / Knock-knock at your front door / It's the suede denim secret police / They have come for your uncool niece

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English cool English uncool From un- + cool.

noun

  1. 1

    slangThe quality of being uncool.

    Not surprisingly, they discover that despite its sleek exterior, the interior of cool is as warm as a puppy. It is the very essence of “uncool,” in fact: […]

    At the risk of being labeled a scold — the ultimate in uncool — I have to ask: before cashing those big checks, shouldn’t we at least pause to consider what we are saying with our movies about the value of life and the pleasures of mayhem?

Forms

comparative
uncooler, more uncool
superlative
uncoolest, most uncool
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).