Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not cultured; coarse.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Untilled; uncultivated; wild; hence, unpolished; unrefined; rude, as style.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized.

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  • adjective Uncultivated, wild.
  • adjective Rough, unrefined.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin incultus : in-, not; see in– + cultus, past participle of colere, to till, cultivate; see kwel- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin incultus.

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Examples

  • Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbary and Numidia in Africa, before his time incult and horrid, fruitful and bartable by this means.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • To shut up all in brief, where good government is, prudent and wise princes, there all things thrive and prosper, peace and happiness is in that land: where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Germany then, saith Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities: Athens, Corinth, Carthage, how flourishing cities, now buried in their own ruins!

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Patricia Reynaud only teaching French for freshmen and specialist of nothing and her boyfriend Fabbri are incult and pretentious asses who play the gurus.

    Introducing Jean Biès Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Here is raw life, lusty, full of rude beauty, but utterly incult.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • Rude phrase of the country, summing up in two words all the heartbreaking labour that transforms the incult woods, barren of sustenance, to smiling fields, ploughed and sown.

    Maria Chapdelaine; a Tale of the Lake St. John country 1913

  • Vernon, the fact that there exist in Latin a few pitiful rules of grammar, of syntax, nay, even of declension, which were not created for your incult sport -- your Boeotian diversion.

    A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'You .... hold! 'he growled at it masterfully, in the incult tangle of his white beard.

    The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

  • Rude phrase of the country, summing up in two words all the heartbreaking labour that transforms the incult woods, barren of sustenance, to smiling fields, ploughed and sown.

    Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896

  • The curiosity of the Middle Ages was great; their literary faculty, though somewhat incult and infantine, was great likewise: and there were such enormous gaps in their positive knowledge that the sharp sense of division between the certain, the uncertain, and the demonstrably false, which has grown up later, could hardly exist.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

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  • Yet father had not been an incult sort of a man. On the contrary, if he was burly and determined, he was quiet. And sensitive.

    - Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post

    March 12, 2008

  • A young person’s mind is in tumult,

    While fertile and green it is uncult,

    So passionate youth

    Neglects tact for truth

    And old withered ears hear an insult.

    December 10, 2018

  • It's not time to make a change,

    Just relax, take it easy...

    December 10, 2018

  • Ooh, bilby bilby, it's a wild world.

    December 11, 2018