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Uncultivated

adjective

(of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops.

(of persons) lacking art or knowledge. Synonyms: artless, uncultured.

Characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes. Synonyms: lowbrow, lowbrowed.

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"Uncultivated" Quotes from Famous Books

... and associations, another to its literary and artistic records; no one American, however cultivated, could do justice to all these claims, even with life and health of an expectation beyond that of the most uncultivated American. Besides this suggestion I should like to offer a warning, and this is, that no matter with what devoted passion the American lover of London approaches her he must not hope for an exclusive possession of her heart. If she is insurpassably the most interesting, the most fascinating ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

... and British Columbians and Australians sheerly unreasonable, and causes them to jump at one argument after another, each more fallacious than the last, to defend an attitude which at bottom is nothing but the childish and ignorant hatred of the uncultivated man for everything strange. If the Japanese had had white skins, should we ever have heard of the economic argument? And should we ever have been presented with ...

— Appearances - Being Notes of Travel • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

... be taught properly to appreciate the rights of property. Finally slavery failed to develop in the slave that self-mastery and self-control which are necessary for free social life. Admirable as slavery was in some ways as a school for an uncultivated people, it failed utterly in other ways; and it surely should not be difficult to devise methods of training at the present time which are superior to anything that slavery as a school for the industrial training of the negro could possibly ...

— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood

... cougar has learned by experience a wholesome fear of man, and as civilization has extended throughout our country, the animals have been forced to retire from the neighborhood of human habitations and hide themselves in thick, uncultivated ...

— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... treats of the Champion's Sickness and Death, and whoever considers the Beauty, Regularity and majestic Simplicity of the Relation, cannot but be surpris'd at the Advances that may be made in Poetry by the Strength of an uncultivated Genius, and may see how far Nature can proceed without the Ornamental Helps and Assistances of Art. The Poet don't attribute his Sickness to a Debauch, to the Irregularity or Intemperance of his Life, but to an Exercise becoming an Hero; and tho' he dies quietly in his Bed, he may be ...

— Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) • William Wagstaffe

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