incult

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin incultus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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.
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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.
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