adj
Meaning 1
Not having developed a civilization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The explorers wrote about the so-called uncivilized tribes.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
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adj
Not having developed a civilization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: barbaric, pagan, uncultivated, animalistic, barbarian, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Lacking good manners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bumptious, ill-bred, rude, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, crude, churlish, impudent, discourteous, gauche, ill-mannered, impolite, incivil, insolent, lack-grace, mismannered, rantipole, rough, uncivil, uncivilized, uncourteous, uncouth, uncultured, underbred, unmannerly, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined
Antonyms: none provided
verb
simple past and past participle of uncivilize
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
without civilizing influences-Margaret Meade
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, wild
Antonyms: none provided
History
From un- + civilized.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.