Uncivilized

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uncivilized \Un*civ"i*lized\, a.
     1. Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude;
        barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of
        Central Africa.
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     2. Not civil; coarse; clownish. [R.] --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uncivilized
       adj : without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders";
             "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is
             crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are
             efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: {barbarian},
              {barbaric}, {savage}, {uncivilised}, {wild}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncivilized":
     Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous,
     atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial,
     bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, boorish, brutal, brutalized,
     brute, brutish, cannibalistic, churlish, cloddish, coarse, crude,
     cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic,
     fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce,
     gauche, gross, hellish, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite,
     incondite, inelegant, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, kill-crazy,
     loutish, lowbred, malign, malignant, merciless, murderous,
     noncivilized, outlandish, philistine, pitiless, primitive,
     provincial, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, ruthless,
     sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish,
     slavering, subhuman, tameless, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian,
     uncivil, uncombed, unconscionable, uncouth, uncultivated,
     uncultured, uneducated, ungentle, ungodly, unholy, unhuman,
     unkempt, unlearned, unlicked, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined,
     unsophisticated, untamed, untutored, vicious, wicked, wild,
     wolfish