incult

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UK/ɪnˈkʌlt/

adjective

Uncultivated, wild.

OriginLatin incultus →
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Meanings

adjectiveincult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)

comparative more incult · superlative most incult

  1. obsoleteUncultivated, wild.

    Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.

    1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
  2. archaicRough, unrefined.

    where good government is, […] there all things thrive and prosper […]: where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 86

Origin

  1. Latinincultus
  2. Englishincult

From Latin incultus.

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