单词 | uncultivated |
释义 | uncultivatedadj. 1. a. figurative. Of persons, their faculties, etc.: Not improved by education or training; uncultured. 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 society > education > teaching > training > [adjective] > untrained or undisciplined undisciplineda1382 unschooled1589 uncultivated1796 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 8 Whereof their uncultivated understandings scarce holding any theory, they are but bad discerners of verity. View more context for this quotation 1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 145 Such are the usual products of savage nature! such, the furniture of the uncultivated soul! 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. i. 146 Mr. Dennel was a man as unfavoured by nature as he was uncultivated by art. 1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 224 He was a coarse, uncultivated man. 1898 J. Arch Story of Life 247 Their uncultivated minds were like dark lanterns with a rushlight inside. b. Of nations, times, etc.: Not improved by culture; uncivilized. 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 1725 G. Berkeley Proposal in Wks. (1871) III. 227 They shew as much natural sense as other uncultivated nations. 1779 Mirror No. 13 The rude and uncultivated age in which the poet is supposed to have lived. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. Pref. p. xiii Tacitus..was certainly not acquainted with the language of our uncultivated ancestors. 2. a. Of land: Not cultivated or laboured; untilled. 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 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 90 A part of their Soil, of which they make no use, but let it lie idle and uncultivated. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 214 It look'd a wild uncultivated Shoar. a1745 J. Swift Stephen in Wks. (1768) XIII. 307 The fields lay uncultivated, all the arts of civil life were banished. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 95 A more numerous band..were easily admitted to share a superfluous waste of uncultivated land. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 313 How many square miles, which were formerly uncultivated or ill cultivated, have..been fenced and carefully tilled. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 340 The open country extends in a sea of green vegetation, which gives way..to uncultivated land. b. Of plants: Not produced or improved by cultivation; growing without tillage or care. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated wildc725 untameda1340 unsownc1374 unplanteda1382 savagea1500 natural1526 self-sowed1597 self-sown1608 maiden1616 voluntary1620 spontaneous1665 uncultivated1697 wilding1697 volunteer1794 uncultured1804 agrarian1851 self-raised1852 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 89 Trees of Nature, and each common Bush, Uncultivated thrive. View more context for this quotation 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. i. v. 50 The roots and uncultivated fruits of the earth. 1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 286 The uncultivated plant is stated to be preferable to the cultivated. 3. Not attended to or practised; not properly trained or developed. ΘΚΠ society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > not educated untowenc1000 unnurtured1548 unlessonedc1555 unkent1570 unexercised1577 uneducate?1592 unlectured1593 unschooled1593 untutored1594 unconfirmed1598 uneducated1598 unedifieda1625 indoct1677 uncultivated1685 unformed1711 unsuppled1761 teachless1819 uninaugurated1823 Philistinian1931 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not practised or used unhaunted1533 disaccustomeda1586 discustomed1605 uncultivated1685 unmaintained1885 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 110 A First essay upon so difficult and uncultivated a Subject as I have ventur'd to treat of. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 334. ⁋3 The Art [of dancing]..lies altogether uncultivated. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 50 Swift indeed has left no weapon of sarcasm untried, no branch of satyr uncultivated. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. vii. 93 The superior force of goodness, even where most simple and uncultivated. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 361 He became..a comic writer..in the same vein of uncultivated genius. Derivatives unˈcultivatedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] lewdness1362 inculture1653 uncultivatedness1764 incultivation1787 philistinism1793 uncultivation1796 unculture1812 muselessness1877 unliterariness1903 lowbrowism1910 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. Pref. There is a sameness in human nature every where, under the like degree of uncultivatedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1646 |
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