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uncultural en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English cultural English uncultural From un- + cultural.

Meanings

1. Not cultural.
   • The first variate is characterized by second-person utterances that refer to the addressee as being aggressive and uncultural. 1984, Han Bonarius, Personality Psychology in Europe: Theoretical and empirical developments, Swets & Zeitlinger, →ISBN, page 75:
   • There are cultural and uncultural ways of teaching all subjects, and the subjects which it is desirable to teach depend on the structure of the society in which men and women are to live, or the things they are called upon to do. 1944, South Indian Teacher - Volumes 17-19, page 136:
   • To spend the day playing the flute or harp in the face of such a crying need and when no men were available would be a most uncultural and inartistic mal-development of man's potentialities. 1926, Axel Brett, A Critical Approach to an Esthetic Theory, page 23:

Forms

Translations (6)

hi असांस्कृतिक (Translations) · de kulturlos (Translations) · da kulturløs (Translations) · de unkulturell (Translations) · da ukulturel (Translations) · fi sivistymätön (Translations)