uncivilizable
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + civilizable.
Adjective
edituncivilizable (comparative more uncivilizable, superlative most uncivilizable)
- Incapable of being civilized.
- 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108:
- This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage.