单词 | cultureless |
释义 | culturelessadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 1824 B. Barton Minor Poems 266 If cultureless that soil had laid, What now could be its own,..But barrenness alone? 1826 T. Campbell Field Flowers in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1907) 251 Earth's cultureless buds! to my heart ye were dear. 1878 Times 23 Oct. 4/4 It is a wild and cultureless region, consisting of moor and rock. 2. Esp. of a person or society: lacking culture or a culture; uncultured, unrefined. ΚΠ 1881 W. Carleton Farm Festivals 104 'Twas strange..How much of Heaven's glory had glittered and smiled Through the cultureless voice of an innocent child. 1884 E. Fawcett Song & Story 42 This man, so intellectually a man,..loves me who am cultureless, Even ignorant. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 124 The cultureless multitude. 1915 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 4 Feb. 8/5 To these Europeans Americans are cultureless,..and are more absorbed with a crass materialism. 1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 457 A genuinely classless society, which Mr. [T. S.] Eliot assumes would be a cultureless society. 1969 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 15 Dec. (1995) 403 Young men and women of sub-public school class and home backgrounds bookless and cultureless. 2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 21 Jan. 12 The new villagers can be rootless and cultureless, with no sense of community, continuity or loyalty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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