uncool

adjective

un·​cool ˌən-ˈkül How to pronounce uncool (audio)
1
: lacking in assurance, sophistication, or self-control
2
: failing to accord with the values or styles (as of dress or behavior) of a particular group : not accepted or admired as cool or proper
driving an uncool car
an uncool remark

Examples of uncool in a Sentence

Her parents' car is totally uncool. It's uncool to lie to your friends.
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New Balance has had a dramatic shift in image, from being famously seen as uncool to becoming very fashionable in recent years. Ayesha Javed, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024 The pop album that has thus far defined your summer has reached an arguably uncool level of cultural dominance, the Olympics are winding down, and your nearest multiplex is showing Deadpool & Wolverine 14 times a day until the end of time. Chris Stanton, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024 In the rhetoric of some of Sanders’s most vocal and inflammatory supporters in those primaries, wanting a woman to be president became something intellectually unserious, insufficiently progressive, a little gauche, a little uncool. Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Fincher makes clear that this loser subculture is self-destructive and uncool. Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for uncool 

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of uncool was in 1948

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“Uncool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncool. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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