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单词 cultureless
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culturelessadj.

Brit. /ˈkʌltʃələs/, U.S. /ˈkəltʃərləs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: culture n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < culture n. + -less suffix.
1. Of the soil, a plant, etc.: uncultivated, wild. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]
rudea1382
roida1400
borel1513
rustical?1532
illiberal1535
waste?1541
rusticc1550
illiterate1556
ruggedc1565
profane1568
unskilful1572
raw?1573
clownish1581
home-born1589
rough-hewn1593
unpolished1594
artless1598
home-bred1602
unbevelled1602
incult1628
museless1644
uncultivated1646
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
incultivate1661
unpolite1674
uncult1675
repent1684
uncultivated1725
uncultured1777
unenlightened1792
cultureless1824
sloven1856
philistinic1869
undoctrined1869
Philistine1871
Philistinish1871
roughneck1906
lowbrow1907
low-level1916
no-brow1922
bohunk1957
bakya1960
1824 B. Barton Minor Poems 266 If cultureless that soil had laid, What now could be its own,..But barrenness alone?
1826 T. Campbell Field Flowers in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1907) 251 Earth's cultureless buds! to my heart ye were dear.
1878 Times 23 Oct. 4/4 It is a wild and cultureless region, consisting of moor and rock.
2. Esp. of a person or society: lacking culture or a culture; uncultured, unrefined.
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1881 W. Carleton Farm Festivals 104 'Twas strange..How much of Heaven's glory had glittered and smiled Through the cultureless voice of an innocent child.
1884 E. Fawcett Song & Story 42 This man, so intellectually a man,..loves me who am cultureless, Even ignorant.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 124 The cultureless multitude.
1915 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 4 Feb. 8/5 To these Europeans Americans are cultureless,..and are more absorbed with a crass materialism.
1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 457 A genuinely classless society, which Mr. [T. S.] Eliot assumes would be a cultureless society.
1969 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 15 Dec. (1995) 403 Young men and women of sub-public school class and home backgrounds bookless and cultureless.
2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 21 Jan. 12 The new villagers can be rootless and cultureless, with no sense of community, continuity or loyalty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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