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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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20 words match “UNCIVILIZED”

UNCIVILIZED a. 2 definitions
Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.
AGRIOLOGY n.
Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
BARBARIAN n. 2 definitions
A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
BARBARIC a.
Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.
BARBARISM n.
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.
BARBAROUS a.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
BRUTE a.
Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]
GOTH n.
One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.
HEATHENISH a.
Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.
INCIVILIZATION n.
The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.
INCULT a.
Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized. Germany then, says Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities. Burton. His style is diffuse and incult. M. W. Shelley.
SAVAGE a. 2 definitions
Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity E. D. Griffin.
SAVAGISM n.
The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
SEMIBARBARIC a.
Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
SEMIBARBARISM n.
The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
TRIBE n.
A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
UNCIVIL a.
Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized. Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. Burke.
UNCIVILIZATION n.
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. [R.]
UPLANDISH a.
Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. [Obs.] His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.
WILD a.
Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.