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uncool

[ uhn-kool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Slang.

not self-assured or relaxed:
He felt very uncool, making a speech to strangers.
not sophisticated or worldly-wise.

uncool

/ ʌnˈkuːl /

Origin of uncool¹

1955–60; un- ¹ + cool (in the slang senses “socially adept”)

And, thankfully, so too have its less glorious days of selling sex to teenagers who had already declared the brand uncool.

Her response was a “very un-macho, uncool, and unexciting one,” according to Albertine.

They are unapologetically uncool, the men in white nylon jumpsuits and the women in “artsy” drop earrings.

Then I think also hipster culture and stuff like that has made it labeled as “uncool.”

At the same time, lightness and charm became uncool; darkness and so-called “authenticity” took over.

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