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incult

UK/ɪnˈkʌlt/

incult adjective: uncultivated, wild.

Adjective

incult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)

  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

Forms of incult

comparativemore incult
superlativemost incult

Origin of incult

From Latin incultus.

Questions about incult

What does incult mean?
Incult means uncultivated, wild.
What part of speech is incult?
Incult is an adjective.
How do you pronounce incult?
Incult is pronounced /ɪnˈkʌlt/ (UK).

Words near incult in the dictionary

  1. inculpates
  2. inculpating
  3. inculpation
  4. inculpations
  5. inculpatory
  6. incult
  7. incultivated
  8. incultivation
  9. inculturate
  10. inculturated
  11. inculturates

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