Meaning | not having a high state of culture and social development. |
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Synonym | noncivilized |
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Narrower | barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild | Without civilizing influences |
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barbarous | Primitive in customs / customs and culture |
preliterate, nonliterate | Used of a society that has not developed writing |
primitive | Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies |
See also | uneducated | not having a good education |
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Opposite | civilized, civilised | Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological |
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