Uncultivated
[ʌn'kʌltɪveɪtɪd] or [ʌn'kʌltɪvetɪd]
Definition
(adj.) (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops; 'uncultivated land' .
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Untilled.[2]. Rude, uncivilized, unlettered, ignorant, unpolished, uneducated.[3]. Wild, savage, rough, sylvan.
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Examples
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- How _corse_ and uncultivated! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In a country naturally fertile, but of which the far greater part is altogether uncultivated, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A great part of them was uncultivated; but no part of them, whether cultivated or uncultivated, was left without a proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The high price of lean cattle, by augmenting the value of uncultivated land, is like a bounty against improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The world is large, and a great part of it still uncultivated. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But, in a new colony, a great uncultivated estate is likely to be much more speedily divided by alienation than by succession. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The whole of this part of Thrace had been so long a scene of contest, that it had remained uncultivated, and presented a dreary, barren appearance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This original engrossing of uncultivated lands, though a great, might have been but a transitory evil. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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