incult

From Latin incultus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkʌlt/

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: […] 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.

Borrowed from French inculte, from Latin incultus.

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

1. uncultured