uncultivated

English

Etymology

From un- + cultivated.

Adjective

uncultivated (comparative more uncultivated, superlative most uncultivated)

1. Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
2. Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge

   Synonyms: unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized; see also Thesaurus:ignorant, Thesaurus:savage

   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter X, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] 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.

3. Not attended to or fostered.

Derived terms

• uncultivatedness

Translations

not cultivated (land)

• Bulgarian: неразоран (nerazoran), неразработен (bg) (nerazraboten)
• Dutch: onbebouwd (nl)
• Friulian: pustot
• Hindi: बीहड़ (hi) (bīhaṛ), बंजर (hi) (bañjar)
• Irish: fódbhán
• Italian: incolto (it)
• Latin: rudis
• Māori: toitū, papatua
• Portuguese: inculto (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàs
• Slovak: neobrobený m, nekultivovaný m
• Spanish: inculto (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: قیر (kır)

uncivilized

• Dutch: onbeschaafd (nl)
• Hindi: बीहड़ (hi) (bīhaṛ)
• Italian: incolto (it), incivile (it), ignorante (it), rozzo (it)
• Polish: nieobyty (pl), niewyrobiony
• Slovak: nekultivovaný m

not attended to