incult

adj — 2 senses

incult

adj

UK /ɪnˈkʌlt/

Etymology From Latin incultus.

1

Obsolete Uncultivated, wild.

  • Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
2

Archaic Rough, unrefined.

  • 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., New York, 2001, p.86

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