uncultured
Rough around edges
Uncultured means lacking refinement, education, or familiarity with the arts and intellectual pursuits.
An uncultured person might be ignorant of literature, music, or social graces: His uncultured table manners embarrassed his hosts.
The word carries judgment—it implies not just ignorance but a failure to acquire what one should have.
Often used playfully: You've never seen Casablanca? How uncultured!
Unpolished, raw state
tasteless · philistine · gauche · inelegant · graceless · tactless · crass · lowbrow
Lacking knowledge or awareness
- illiterateCannot read or write
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- unlearnedLacking acquired knowledge
- untutoredWithout formal instruction
uninstructed · unlettered · benighted · uninformed · unknowledgeable · untaught · unstudied · unread
Narrow in perspective
- insularNarrow in outlook
- narrow-mindedIntolerant of differing views
- small-townLimited local outlook
- rusticRural and unrefined
backwoods · unsophisticated · unworldly · sheltered · isolated · closed-minded · limited · regional
Lacking social graces
- barbaricSavagely cruel, uncivilized
- savageFierce and untamed
- barbarousSavagely cruel, uncivilized
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
feral · untamed · brutish · animalistic · rough-hewn · undomesticated · backward · undeveloped
crude
Unpolished, raw state
uncouth · tasteless · philistine · gauche · inelegant · graceless · tactless · crass · lowbrow · unpolished
ignorant
Lacking knowledge or awareness
- illiterateCannot read or write
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- unlearnedLacking acquired knowledge
untutored · uninstructed · unlettered · benighted · uninformed · unknowledgeable · untaught · unstudied · unread · philistine
parochial
Narrow in perspective
- insularNarrow in outlook
- narrow-mindedIntolerant of differing views
- small-townLimited local outlook
rustic · backwoods · unsophisticated · unworldly · sheltered · isolated · closed-minded · limited · regional · local
uncivilized
Lacking social graces
wild · feral · untamed · brutish · animalistic · rough-hewn · undomesticated · backward · undeveloped
- unrefinedcrude, coarse, rough, unpolished, uncouth
- class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
unculturedrefined
Purified or cultured
sophisticated · cultured · polished · elegant · graceful
culture, cultured, cultivate, cultural, cultivation, cultures, agricultural, uncultivated, horticulture