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adj
Not civilized
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: savage, barbarous, uncivilized, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Not civil; discourteous; impolite
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: churlish, lack-grace, rude, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious, crude, impudent, discourteous, gauche, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incivil, insolent, mismannered, rantipole, rough, uncivil, uncivilized, uncourteous, uncouth, uncultured, underbred, unmannerly, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
lacking civility or good manners- Willa Cather
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rude
Antonyms: civil
History
From un- + civil.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
