1. 1遜、不酷、俗;行為上則是「很沒品、很白目」。台灣年輕人日常會說「遜斃了」「很俗」「很不上道」;朋友做了失禮的事說 That was uncool,中文接近「你這樣很不夠意思」,不是說他不時髦。注意「酷」在中文常被當成外表形容詞,但英文的 cool/uncool 更常在講一個人的做人態度。

    Not cool — but you have to know what 'cool' means first. 'Cool' is a word of praise for a person, a thing, or a way of acting: relaxed, confident, stylish, the kind of thing that makes people want to be near you. 'Uncool' is the opposite of that, and it is a judgement, not a fact. It says: this is , this is not what people like us do. Two ways it gets used. About things: uncool clothes, an uncool phone, an uncool band — out of fashion, the sort of thing people quietly laugh at. About behaviour: 'That was really uncool.' Here it does not mean at all — it means you acted badly, you were or unfair, you broke the rule. A friend tells everyone your secret; that is uncool. Notice that this second use is a soft way of saying something hard. It sounds gentle, but the person is genuinely upset with you. The word is informal. It belongs to young people, and it belongs to a certain time — it was strongest from the 1960s to the 1990s, and today it can sound slightly like your parents trying to sound young. Teenagers now more often say 'cringe' or 'that's not it'. Also, the newest slang keeps changing what counts as cool, so 'uncool' quietly means 'uncool to my group' — one group's uncool is another group's normal. A last thing: there is a rare, older use where 'uncool' means not calm, agitated, someone who has lost their cool. You will meet it in old books and songs, not in daily talk.

組成un- + cool. The prefix un- is the plain English 'not', from Old English un-, and it goes all the way back to a Proto-Indo-European sound *n̥- that also gave us the 'in-' of 'incorrect'. It attaches to adjectives freely: happy → unhappy, kind → unkind, cool → uncool. So the word is exactly as young as this use of 'cool' — the prefix is a thousand years old, the word is not.

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  • unkindsame un- 'not' prefix on an adjective
  • unhappysame un- 'not' prefix on an adjective
  • coolthe base word; uncool is its direct negative

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

uncooladj/ʌnˈkuːl/

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    slangNot 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.
    • 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

uncoolnoun/ʌnˈkuːl/

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    slangThe quality of being uncool.

    • Not surprisingly, they discover that despite its sleek exterior, the interior of cool is as warm as a puppy. It is the very essence of “uncool,” in fact: […]
    • At the risk of being labeled a scold — the ultimate in uncool — I have to ask: before cashing those big checks, shouldn’t we at least pause to consider what we are saying with our movies about the value of life and the pleasures of mayhem?

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