cultured

cultured

adj

Definition of CULTURED

1

: cultivated

2

: produced under artificial conditions <cultured viruses> <cultured pearls>

Examples of CULTURED

1. <the most highly cultured period of the country's long history>

First Known Use of CULTURED

circa 1746

Related to CULTURED

Synonyms: accomplished, civilized, couth, cultivated, genteel, polished, refined

Antonyms: barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined

Related Words: cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic; bourgeois, middlebrow; educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read; civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred; cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane; hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticated

Near Antonyms: ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered; lowbrow, unintelligent; coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered; backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical); inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated; boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar

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