English Explanatory Dictionary

uplandish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.
  2. Rustic, rude, boorish; countrified, unsophisticated, or uncivilized.
  3. Wild or savage; mountainous, or dwelling in the mountains.

Word forms

uplandish more uplandish most uplandish

Etymology

From Middle English uplondish, oplondysch, uplondysch, from Old English uplendisc (“uplandish”); equivalent to upland + -ish.

Synonyms

bumpkinish crude barbaric heathen pagan animalistic barbarian barbarious barbarous brutal brutish Gothic Gothlike grim heathenish heathenly heathenous incivil savage tenebrose truculent uncivil uncivilized uncouth uncultivated uncultured uplandish wolfish feral tameless ferine indomite untame untamed wild
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