uncultivated
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + cultivated.
Adjective
edituncultivated (comparative more uncultivated, superlative most uncultivated)
- Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
- Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge
- Synonyms: unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized
- 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter X, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 199:
- I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.
- Not attended to or fostered.
Translations
editnot cultivated (land)
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uncivilized
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not attended to