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English
Etymology
un- + cultivated
Adjective
uncultivated (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 Cadell, Jun. and W Davies, (successors to Mr. 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.
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