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adj. - Not having a high state of culture and social development.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Adjective : The civilized world must fight ignorance. ,The car is quiet and civilized, even in sharp turns
  • This is not to suggest that non-civilization, in itself, is better than civilization, though I believe that one or another non-civilized form can be more rational than...
  • Reiterating his claim from On Liberty that civilized and non-civilized countries are to be treated differently, he insists that ˜barbarians have no rights as a nation,...
  • An estimate published in Madrid in 1891 puts down the non-civilized tribes (Moros included) at 1,400,000.
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