incult

[in-kuhlt]

adjective

1. wild; rude; unrefined.

incult

/ ɪnˈkʌlt /

adjective

1. (of land) uncultivated; untilled; naturally wild

2. lacking refinement and culture

Word History and Origins

Origin of incult¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin incultus, equivalent to in- “un-” + cultus, past participle of colere “to till, cultivate”; in- ³, cultivate

Word History and Origins

Origin of incult¹

C16: from Latin incultus, from _in- ¹ + colere to till

Example Sentences

Their hands are full of work; so full that, when the incult wanderer said: "What do you find to do?" they look upon him with contempt and amazement, exactly as the wanderer himself had once looked upon a Globe-trotter, who had put to him the same impertinent query.

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I am Philistine enough to prefer clean printer’s type; indeed, I can form no idea of the verses thus transcribed by the incult and tottering hand of the draughtsman, nor gather any impression beyond one of weariness to the eyes.

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The curiosity of the Middle Ages was great; their literary faculty, though somewhat incult and infantine, was great likewise: and there were such enormous gaps in their positive knowledge that the sharp sense of division between the certain, the uncertain, and the demonstrably false, which has grown up later, could hardly exist.

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Here is raw life, lusty, full of rude beauty, but utterly incult.

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Puritan, yet of no ascetic strain Or arid straitness, freshening as the rain And healthy as the clod; a native force Incult yet quickening, cleaving its straight course Unchecked, unchastened, conquering to the end.

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Related Words

• bawdy 
• boorish 
• crass 
• crude 
• dirty 
• gruff 
• nasty 
• obscene 
• off-color 
• raw 
• ribald 
• rude 
• scatological 
• vulgar