uncultivated
uncultivated adjective: not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
Adjective
uncultivated (comparative more uncultivated, superlative most uncultivated)
- Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
- 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
- Synonyms:
- unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized, benighted, cimmerian, clueless, foolish, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate
- Not attended to or fostered.
uncultivated meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
uncultivated in Hindi
- not cultivated (land)
- बीहड़ bīhaṛ, बंजर bañjar
- uncivilized
- बीहड़ bīhaṛ
uncultivated in Tamil
- பயிரிடப்படாத, பண்படுத்தப்படாத
uncultivated in Urdu
- ان گھڑا, بےتربیت, بیہڑ, غیرآباد, غیرمزروعہ, غیرمہذب
uncultivated in Kannada
- ಸಾಗುವಳಿ ಮಾಡದ, ಅನಾಗರಿಕ, ಅಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ
More languagesFewer languages
- uncultivated in Sanskrit
- जङ्गल jaṅgala
- uncultivated in Nepali
- बाँझो bā̃jho
Synonyms of uncultivated
- unrefined
- uncultured
- uncivilized
- benighted
- cimmerian
- clueless
- foolish
- ignorant
- ill-informed
- illiterate
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- innocent
- nescient
- oblivious
- philistine
- tenebrose
- unaware
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- unerudite
- uninformed
- unknowing
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlearnt
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unscholarly
- unschooled
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- unwitting
- animalistic
- barbarian
- barbaric
- barbarous
- brutal
- brutish
- Gothic
Forms of uncultivated
| comparative | more uncultivated |
|---|---|
| superlative | most uncultivated |
Origin of uncultivated
From un- + cultivated.
Words formed from uncultivated
Questions about uncultivated
- What does uncultivated mean?
- Uncultivated means not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
- What is uncultivated in Hindi?
- Uncultivated in Hindi is बीहड़ (bīhaṛ), बंजर (bañjar). See Uncultivated meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is uncultivated?
- Uncultivated is an adjective.
Words near uncultivated in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncultivated (page history and authors); uncultivated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uncultivated (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uncultivated (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जङ्गल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); बाँझो (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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