incult

English

Etymology

From Latin incultus.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkʌlt/

Adjective

incult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)

  1. (obsolete) Uncultivated, wild.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
      Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
  2. (now rare) Rough, unrefined.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.86:
      where good government is, […] there all things thrive and prosper […] : where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French inculte, from Latin incultus.

Adjective

incult m or n (feminine singular incultă, masculine plural inculți, feminine and neuter plural inculte)

  1. uncultured

Declension
Declension of incult
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite incult incultă inculți inculte
definite incultul inculta inculții incultele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite incult inculte inculți inculte
definite incultului incultei inculților incultelor
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