incult

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin incultus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

incult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)

  1. (obsolete) Uncultivated, wild.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
      Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
  2. (now rare) Rough, unrefined.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.86:
      where good government is, [] there all things thrive and prosper [] : where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French inculte, from Latin incultus.

Adjective[edit]

incult m or n (feminine singular incultă, masculine plural inculți, feminine and neuter plural inculte)

  1. uncultured

Declension[edit]