semicivilized
/sem-ee-siv-uh-lahyzd, sem-ahy-/US // ˌsɛm iˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd, ˌsɛm aɪ- //
半开化的,半文明,半开化,半文明的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : half or partly civilized.
Examples
But here the semicivilized, superstitious, rather dirty, fourteenth and fifteenth century person has gone.
The city was nothing more than a semicivilized settlement of little, flat‑topped stone houses.
You know Nerado mentioned several times the 'semicivilized fishes of the greater deeps'?
Most of the foreign goods are of a class which must, I think, be manufactured only for export to a semicivilized country.
There are no rival claims to lay hold of unoccupied or semicivilized territories in other parts of the world.
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