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uncultured

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Not cultured or civilized; lacking in delicacy or refinement; philistine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: benighted, unenlightened, barbarous, uncivilized, cimmerian, clueless, foolish, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, innocent, lack-learning, lay, lewd, loreless, nescient, oblivious, philistine, tenebrose, unaware, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unerudite, uninformed, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlearnt, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, unwitting, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, savage, truculent, uncivil, uncouth, uplandish, wolfish

Antonyms: cultured

2

adj

Meaning 2

Not cultured or artificially developed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: cultured

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

(of persons) lacking art or knowledge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: artless, uncultivated

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From un- + cultured.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: некульту́рны (njekulʹtúrny) — not cultured
  • Catalan: inculte — not cultured
  • Danish: ukultiveret — not cultured
  • Finnish: sivistymätön — not cultured
  • French: inculte — not cultured
  • German: kulturlos — not cultured
  • Hindi: असभ्य (asabhya) — not cultured
  • Hindi: अशिष्ट (aśiṣṭ) — not cultured
  • Hungarian: kulturálatlan — not cultured
  • Hungarian: műveletlen — not cultured
  • Persian: بیفرهنگ (bifarhang) — not cultured
  • Polish: niekulturalny — not cultured
  • Portuguese: inculto — not cultured
  • Romanian: incult — not cultured
  • Russian: некульту́рный (nekulʹtúrnyj) — not cultured
  • Spanish: inculto — not cultured
  • Spanish: guaso — not cultured
  • Spanish: huaso — not cultured
  • Swedish: okultiverad — not cultured
  • Ukrainian: некульту́рний (nekulʹtúrnyj) — not cultured