uncultured

British  

/ ʌnˈkʌltʃəd /

adjective

1. lacking good taste, manners, upbringing, and education

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Explanation

Someone who is uncultured is ignorant or uneducated, particularly about the arts. If you spend all day watching soap operas and you've never read a book, seen a play, or visited a museum, you might be uncultured. Some believe that what really separates man from beast is culture, the desire to learn about and understand the relationship between people and the surrounding world, the need to form communities, make art and play games. If you're a cultured person, you visit museums, attend concerts, read books. You are interested in the world, and open to new experiences and ways of looking at things. If you're uncultured, you do none of those things.

Example Sentences

Uncultured warriors have taken pops out of the lace-tying picture, replacing his instructional fingers with Velcro on L’il Jordans and James’ and Curry’s.

From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2017

Uncultured as they may be, is it not, indeed, among the people that we see the most vivid sympathies with the really great artists, the true poets?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Uncultured minds admit witnessed facts to be positive occurrences, and affect no need to comprehend how they are produced before giving assent to their verity.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

She decided that she would allow the Glory of her Presence to burst upon the Poor and the Uncultured.

From Fables in Slang by Newman, Clyde J.

"Uncultured peasants," says the king in a vengeful statute, "and workmen of different kinds in our kingdom of England ... have given themselves out to be our own minstrels."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules