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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Jennifer Lawrence was the most successful actress of her generation, an Oscar winner by 23, with an unpretentious persona that sat in stark contrast to the theater-kid affectations of Anne Hathaway, who suddenly seemed extremely uncool.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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
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“Uncool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncool. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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