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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Zach Harper, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
In an era of kale Caesar salads and turmeric lattes, an old-fashioned meatloaf feels decidedly frumpy and uncool.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025
Pop listeners tend to have (often misguided) opinions about those two genres: Rap is crass, country is uncool.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
As Burroughs’s alter ego, a blundering heroin addict pining after a younger man, the actor manages to be uncool onscreen for the first time ever.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for uncool
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“Uncool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncool. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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