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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not cultivated by standard agricultural methods.
  • adjective Socially unpolished, uncultured, or unrefined.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not cultivated, in any sense of that word.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
  • adjective Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
  • adjective Not attended to or fostered.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops
  • adjective (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
  • adjective characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cultivated

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