uncivilizable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ civilizable.

Adjective

uncivilizable (comparative more uncivilizable, superlative most uncivilizable)

  1. Incapable of being civilized.
    • 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108:
      This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage.