Synonyms of uncultured

uncultured

adjective

ˌən-ˈkəl-chərd 

as in vulgar

lacking in refinement or good taste

an unlettered and uncultured society that still had the manners of the frontier

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vulgar
• crass
• rude
• coarse
• common
• crude
• uncouth
• uncultivated
• gross
• clumsy
• unrefined
• unpolished
• lowbrow
• rough
• tasteless
• rugged
• ill-bred
• raffish
• low
• insensible
• illiberal
• rough-hewn
• boorish
• roughneck
• loutish
• unsophisticated
• thoughtless
• lowbred
• ungentlemanly
• churlish
• cloddish
• clownish
• oafish
• insensitive
• incult
• inconsiderate
• rustic
• uncivilized
• indelicate
• lumpish
• lubberly
• provincial
• barbaric
• barbarous
• countrified
• tacky
• inelegant
• unmannered
• graceless
• unmannerly
• mannerless
• animallike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cultured
• civilized
• smooth
• polished
• aristocratic
• genteel
• cultivated
• refined
• tasteful
• patrician
• well-bred
• elegant
• courtly
• graceful
• sensitive
• restrained
• ultrarefined
• gracious
• thoughtful
• sophisticated
• considerate
• urbane
• citified

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of uncultured

The problem is that this group is mostly comprised of uncultured idiots, so Shai and Georgia are the only people who know what Rocky Horror is. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 July 2026

In certain circles, identifying with the city is shorthand for being uncultured and self-obsessed, even soulless. — Ella Berman august 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025

For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024

In Australian vernacular, a larrikin is a mischievous prankster, a loud, uncultured, badly behaved young person given to flouting convention. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023

Associating certain foods with Black culture derives historically from how these foods were once used as symbols in popular media to depict Black people as poor and uncultured following the abolition of slavery. — Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023

Together, in which an uncultured father toils to support his musical prodigy son, doesn’t translate to this American tale, calculated to hang an honorific on a story of black masculine perseverance that many will find unexceptional. — Armond White, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022