incultadj.
/ɪnˈkʌlt/, /ɪŋˈkʌlt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈkəlt/, /ɪŋˈkəlt/ Now rare.
1. Uncultivated, untilled, in a state of natural wildness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. iii. 269 Germany then, saith Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent Citties.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 166 Her forests huge, Incult, robust, and tall.
1864 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. (1865) I. xii. 340 There were no trees, hedgerows, gardens visible. All was incult and horrid—without form and void.
2. Unpolished, untrimmed, inartistic, rude.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > unskilfully made or done > rough or crude
gross1513
incult1599
infabricated1623
rough1680
artless1695
crude1786
blockish1880
hairy1914
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke Transl. to Rdr. 1 I hope, and trust the most curteous Reader will accept..this my most inculte and vntilled labour.
1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 114 Eyther incult and horrid stones or unshapen and rude matter.
1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. Pref. 9 The reading of so incult and unpolite a Rhapsodie.
a1851 M. Wollstonecraft in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) His style is diffuse and incult.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iii. 60 The miscellaneous..writers, who, incult and formless as their work was, at least maintained the literary tradition.
3. Of persons, their manners, etc.: Wanting in culture or refinement; inelegant, rough, coarse.
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
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons
boistousc1300
rudec1405
blunt1477
rustyc1485
rough?1531
sillya1547
ruggedc1565
unrefined1582
unpolished1594
unfashioned1606
inurbane1623
incult1628
ungenteel1633
roughsome?c1660
unpolite1674
inelegant1735
untutored1751
unrarefied1835
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) Democritus To Rdr. 59 Let them be rude, stupid, ignorant, incult.
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 8 In the more incult and fierce behaviour of our English and Saxon Ancestors.
1862 Symonds in Life (1895) I. 208 She saw his coarseness at once. He is incult, but clever.
1891 C. Wordsworth Ann. Early Life ii. 145 His [Neander's] appearance was very incult.
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