uncool
Not in accord with the current fashion, standards, or mores of a particular group; not cool.
Adjective
- Not 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. - 1970, Kevin Mackey, The Cure: Recollections of an Addict, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1972, page 122:
- 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 - 1979, Jello Biafra, John Greenway, “California Über Alles”, performed by Dead...
Synonyms: banal basic beat blah commonplace bland boring cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum humdrum insipid lackluster lame languid
Antonyms: cool ace admirable amazing awe-inspiring awesome badass bang on bang-up studly based beatific beneship bitching blissful bomb brilliant bully celestial cher choice chronic chur cock on
Origin
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.