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

He was derided as a snob when he suggested, in a few statements over the years, that he had to dumb down his work for uncultured audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

Bogan, a term which first emerged in Australia in the 1980s, initially meant an "unsophisticated and uncultured person" with negative connotations, but not for Louis.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Specifically, genetic data from uncultured aquatic microbial species were compiled for this study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

“He’s too immature and uncultured to really represent this district,” added Watson, a retired attorney and Army colonel.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

As a result of the publicity about his schooling, or lack thereof, Fischer was beginning to be thought of as a nyeculturni by the Russians, unschooled and uncultured, and they began to tease him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady