English Explanatory Dictionary

uncultured

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Not cultured or civilized; lacking in delicacy or refinement; philistine.
Not cultured or artificially developed.

Word forms

uncultured more uncultured most uncultured

Etymology

From un- + cultured.

Synonyms

benighted unenlightened barbarous uncivilized cimmerian clueless foolish ignorant ill-informed illiterate innocent lack-learning lay lewd loreless nescient oblivious philistine tenebrose unaware uncultivated uncultured uneducated unerudite uninformed unknowing unknowledgeable unlearned unlearnt unlettered unmindful unread unscholarly unschooled untaught untrained untutored unwitting animalistic barbarian barbaric barbarious brutal brutish Gothic Gothlike grim heathen heathenish heathenly heathenous incivil pagan savage truculent uncivil uncouth uplandish wolfish

Antonyms

cultured

Translations

Belarusian: некульту́рны Catalan: inculte Danish: ukultiveret Finnish: sivistymätön French: inculte German: kulturlos Hindi: असभ्य Hindi: अशिष्ट Hungarian: kulturálatlan Hungarian: műveletlen Persian: بیفرهنگ Polish: niekulturalny Portuguese: inculto Romanian: incult Russian: некульту́рный Spanish: inculto Spanish: guaso Spanish: huaso Swedish: okultiverad Ukrainian: некульту́рний

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