| 单词 | uncultured |
| 释义 | uncultured (once / 14241 pages) adj Someone who is uncultured is ignorant or uneducated, particularly about the arts. If you spend all day watching soap operas and you've never read a book, seen a play, or visited a museum, you might be uncultured. Some believe that what really separates man from beast is culture, the desire to learn about and understand the relationship between people and the surrounding world, the need to form communities, make art and play games. If you're a cultured person, you visit museums, attend concerts, read books. You are interested in the world, and open to new experiences and ways of looking at things. If you're uncultured, you do none of those things. WORD FAMILYuncultured: unculturedly+/acculturate: acculturated, acculturation, acculturative/acculturation: acculturational/counterculture: countercultures/cultural: culturally, multicultural, transcultural/culture: acculturate, counterculture, cultural, cultured, cultures, culturing, subculture/cultured: culturedly, uncultured/multicultural: multiculturalism/subculture: subcultures USAGE EXAMPLESToday, economics has turned food into the only ersatz "art form" that can thrive among those with deep pockets and benumbed, uncultured sensibilities. New York Times(Aug 26, 2016) The plucky girl quickly becomes a friend and confidante to help the kind, gentle giant from being bullied by his larger, uncultured brethren. Reuters(Jul 01, 2016) Originally, they focussed on uncultured species of actinobacteria, which had been a plentiful source of antibiotics. The New Yorker(Jun 13, 2016) adj (of persons) lacking art or knowledge Syn artless, uncultivated unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth |
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