inculto

adj.

1 uncultured, lowbrow, under-educated, uneducated.

2 vulgar, ordinary, gross, rough.

3 uncultivated, untilled.

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inculto

► adjetivo

1 (persona) uneducated

2 (terreno) uncultivated, untilled

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 (persona) ignorant person, ignoramus

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ADJ

1) [persona] (=iletrado) uncultured, uneducated; (=incivilizado) uncivilized; (=grosero) uncouth

2) (Agr) uncultivated

dejar un terreno inculto — to leave land uncultivated

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I

-ta adjetivo

1) (sin cultura) uncultured, uneducated; (ignorante) ignorant

2) <tierra> uncultivated

II

-ta masculino, femenino

a) (persona sin cultura)

es un inculto — he's uneducated

b) (persona ignorante) ignorant person

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= uncivilised [uncivilized, -USA], uneducated, uncultured, ignoramus [ignoramuses, -pl.], lowbrow [low-brow], lowbrow [low-brow], unenlightened.

Ex. It was on the tip of his tongue to say: 'Must you speak to me in this uncivilized fashion?' But he discreetly forbore.

Ex. It's laughable when Archie Bunker says that, because we know he's an uneducated slob.

Ex. In Japan, where literacy rates are high, the importance of illiteracy as a problem is not well recognised and 'illiterate' is equated with 'uncultured'.

Ex. This continued diet of pseudocultural pap will produce a generation of ethnocentric ignoramuses ill-prepared to deal with real-world complexities.

Ex. These shows were vehemently dismissed by critics as middlebrow and lowbrow kitsch.

Ex. People with a grade-school education, most of whose reading choices are in the low-brow category, cannot and do not easily read material written for the high-brow or even the increasingly college-trained middle-brow.

Ex. It beggars belief that the liberals view the golly as a racist artefact of unenlightened times.

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I

-ta adjetivo

1) (sin cultura) uncultured, uneducated; (ignorante) ignorant

2) <tierra> uncultivated

II

-ta masculino, femenino

a) (persona sin cultura)

es un inculto — he's uneducated

b) (persona ignorante) ignorant person

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= uncivilised [uncivilized, -USA], uneducated, uncultured, ignoramus [ignoramuses, -pl.], lowbrow [low-brow], lowbrow [low-brow], unenlightened.

Ex: It was on the tip of his tongue to say: 'Must you speak to me in this uncivilized fashion?' But he discreetly forbore.

Ex: It's laughable when Archie Bunker says that, because we know he's an uneducated slob.

Ex: In Japan, where literacy rates are high, the importance of illiteracy as a problem is not well recognised and 'illiterate' is equated with 'uncultured'.

Ex: This continued diet of pseudocultural pap will produce a generation of ethnocentric ignoramuses ill-prepared to deal with real-world complexities.

Ex: These shows were vehemently dismissed by critics as middlebrow and lowbrow kitsch.

Ex: People with a grade-school education, most of whose reading choices are in the low-brow category, cannot and do not easily read material written for the high-brow or even the increasingly college-trained middle-brow.

Ex: It beggars belief that the liberals view the golly as a racist artefact of unenlightened times.

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inculto¹ -ta

adjective

A

1 (sin cultura) uncultured, uneducated

2 (ignorante) ignorant

B ‹tierra› uncultivated

inculto² -ta

masculine, feminine

1

(persona sin cultura): es un inculto he's uncultured o uneducated, he has no culture

2 (persona ignorante) ignorant person

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inculto

◊ -ta adjetivo (sin cultura) uncultured, uneducated;

(ignorante) ignorant
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino

a) (persona sin cultura):

◊ es un inculto he's uneducated

b) (persona ignorante) ignorant person

inculto,-a
I adj (poco instruido, iletrado) uneducated
II sustantivo masculino y femenino ignoramus, uneducated person
'inculto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
inculta
- salvaje
English:
illiterate
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unrefined

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inculto, -a

♦ adj

1. [persona] uneducated

2. [tierra] uncultivated

♦ nm,f

ignoramus

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inculto

adj

1 ignorant, uneducated

2 AGR uncultivated

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inculto, -ta adj

1) : uncultured, ignorant

2) : uncultivated, fallow

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inculto adj ignorant