semicivilized

[ sem-ee-siv-uh-lahyzd, sem-ahy- ]

adjective

1. half or partly civilized. civilized.

Other Words From

• semi·civi·li·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of semicivilized¹

First recorded in 1830–40; semi- + civilized

Example Sentences

But here the semicivilized, superstitious, rather dirty, fourteenth and fifteenth century person has gone.

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The city was nothing more than a semicivilized settlement of little, flat‑topped stone houses.

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You know Nerado mentioned several times the 'semicivilized fishes of the greater deeps'?

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Most of the foreign goods are of a class which must, I think, be manufactured only for export to a semicivilized country.

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There are no rival claims to lay hold of unoccupied or semicivilized territories in other parts of the world.

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