uncultivated

adj — 3 senses

uncultivated

adj

Etymology From un- + cultivated.

1

Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.

2

Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge

  • 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.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:
3

Not attended to or fostered.

Derived terms
uncultivatedness

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