Synonyms for uncivilized
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Barbaric — crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured
barbaric, savage, barbarian, barbarous, wild, uncultivated, heathen, brutish, inhuman, brutal, truculent, wolfish, pagan, brute, fell, heathenish, noncivilized, noncivilised UK, heathenly, heathenous, primitive, vicious, sadistic
2. Rude — lacking good manners
rude, uncouth, ill-mannered, uncultured, impolite, unpolished, uncivil, unrefined, crude, rough, churlish, ill-bred, gauche, unmannerly, bumptious UK, boorish, discourteous, insensitive, inelegant, coarse, improper, underbred
Definitions
- adj. 1
Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
They described the practice as uncivilized.
- adj. 2
Lacking good manners.
Related words
- Other spellings
- uncivilised UK
Example sentences
- savage There are still some savage tribes on that island.
- barbarian My level 9 barbarian has been killed.
- barbaric Algeria is a modern nation, not a barbaric country.
- barbarous The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
- uncultured An uncultured person is an enslaved animal.
By length
- 4 letters
- wild1, fell1, rude1
- 5 letters
- rough1, crude1, pagan2, brute1
- 6 letters
- brutal2, savage2, coarse1, gauche1
- 7 letters
- vicious2, inhuman3, heathen2, brutish2, uncouth2, boorish2, uncivil3, wolfish
- 8 letters
- improper3, barbaric3, sadistic3, impolite3, churlish2
- 9 letters
- primitive3, barbarian4, barbarous3, unrefined3, inelegant, truculent3, bumptious, heathenly, underbred
- 10 letters
- uncultured, unpolished, unmannerly, heathenish, heathenous
- 11 letters
- insensitive4
- 12 letters
- uncultivated, discourteous, noncivilized, noncivilised
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pagan2 = 2 syllables).