uncivilizable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ civilizable

Adjective

uncivilizable (comparative more uncivilizable, superlative most uncivilizable)

1. 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.