uncivilized
/ʌnˈsɪvɪlʌɪzd
/(also uncivilised)
adjective
1(Of a place or people) not socially, culturally, or morally advanced: they pitied us for leaving the Smoke for such uncivilized remoteness children are basically uncivilized...
- But I think it is a necessary confrontation, a final break with the wild and uncivilized world from which Enkidu derives.
- Well, of course it couldn't be the uncivilized place that some people say it is.
- Surely, human life could not have started in those uncivilized places.
Synonyms
uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, vulgar, philistine, uneducated, uncultured, uncultivated, benighted, unsophisticated, unrefined, unpolished, ill-bred, ill-mannered, thuggish, loutish;
barbaric, barbarian, barbarous, primitive, savage, wild, brutish, Neanderthal, in a state of nature
informal yobbish, slobbish
archaic rude
1.1Impolite; bad-mannered: forgive me for my apparent rudeness, it was most uncivilised of me...
- Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
- High, bright windows shone at us when children; told us of the happy life of music in those houses where the girls stepped daintily and smiled at us, a joke we thought uncivilised and cruel.
- This is to counter the dumb who don't think they are dumb, and are at the same time crude, uncivilised and unreasonable.
- fireable
- fire action
- fire adjuster
- fire alarm
- fire altar
- fire and brimstone
- fire-and-forget
- fire ant
- fire appliance
- firearm
- fire-armed
- firearmed
- firearm officer
- firearms officer
- fire arrow
- fire assay
- fire away
- fireback
- fire-backed
- fireback pheasant
- fire bag
- fireball
- fireballer
- fireballing
- fire balloon