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adj
Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Rustic, rude, boorish; countrified, unsophisticated, or uncivilized.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: bumpkinish, crude, barbaric, heathen, pagan, animalistic, barbarian, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Wild or savage; mountainous, or dwelling in the mountains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: feral, tameless, ferine, indomite, savage, uplandish, untame, untamed, wild
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English uplondish, oplondysch, uplondysch, from Old English uplendisc (“uplandish”); equivalent to upland + -ish.
