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uncultivated

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un·cul·ti·vat·ed  (n-klt-vtd)
adj.
1. Not cultivated by standard agricultural methods: uncultivated vegetables; uncultivated ground.
2. Socially unpolished, uncultured, or unrefined.

uncultivated [ʌnˈkʌltɪˌveɪtɪd]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) (of a garden, fields, the earth, etc.) not having been tilled and prepared or planted
2. (of a mind, person, etc) not improved by education
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.uncultivateduncultivated - (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops; "uncultivated land"
cultivated - (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land"
2.uncultivateduncultivated - (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
3.uncultivateduncultivated - characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes"
nonintellectual - not intellectual
Translations
uncultivated [ˈʌnˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd] ADJ
1. (Agr) [land] → sin cultivar, inculto(frm)
2. (= uncultured) [person, mind] → sin cultivar; [voice, accent] → no cultivado
uncultivated [ˌʌnˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd] adj [land] → inculte
uncultivated
adj landunkultiviert, unbebaut; person, behaviourunkultiviert; mindnicht ausgebildet; talentbrachliegend
uncultivated [ʌnˈkʌltɪˌveɪtɪd] adjincolto/a
uncultivated [ʌnˈkʌltɪˌveɪtɪd] adjincolto/a


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Never had they witnessed such power of mastication, and such marvellous capacity of stomach, as in this native and uncultivated gastronome.
These mountains, as they are uncultivated, are in some parts shaded with large forests, and in others dry and bare.
In the elbow thus formed the country is of varied character, sometimes luxuriantly fertile, and sometimes extremely bare; fields of maize succeeded by wide spaces covered with broom-corn and uncultivated plains.
 
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