Uncivilized definition

ŭn-sĭvə-līzd
Not civilized; barbarous; unenlightened.
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Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
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Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.
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Far from civilization.
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Not civilized; barbarous.
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Origin of uncivilized

  • From the British spelling uncivilised, with the general spelling reform of "-ise" to "-ize".

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Uncivilized Sentence Examples

  • Rhyn was about as uncivilized as Gio was civilized.

  • The total number of "aucas " or uncivilized Indians in the republic has been estimated at about 200,000, but this estimate covered a larger area than Ecuador actually occupies and is evidently too high.

  • It is only of late years, under the influence of the different missions, that education, ruined by centuries of persecution, has revived amongst the Nestorians; and even now the mountaineers, cut off from the outer world, are as a rule destitute of learning, and greatly resemble their neighbours, the wild and uncivilized Kurds.

  • The policy of opposing uncivilized tribes by the construction of the limes, a raised embankment of earth or other material, intersected here and there by fortifications, was not his invention, but it owed in great measure its development to him.

  • These more specialized actions are most typically seen in the Divining Rod (q.v.; see also Table-Turning), which indicates the presence of water and is used among the uncivilized to trace criminals.

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