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English
Etymology
From Latin incultus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
incult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)
- (obsolete) Uncultivated, wild.
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
- (now rare) Rough, unrefined.
- , New York, 2001, p.86:
- where good government is, there all things thrive and prosper : where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French inculte, from Latin incultus.
Adjective
incult m or n (feminine singular incultă, masculine plural inculți, feminine and neuter plural inculte)
- uncultured
Declension