civilized

civilized

adj

Definition of CIVILIZED

: characteristic of a state of civilization <civilized society>; especially : characterized by taste, refinement, or restraint

Examples of CIVILIZED

1. A civilized society must respond to crime with fairness and justice.
2. Stop yelling. We have to be more civilized about this.
3. Try to act like a civilized human being!
4. a civilized way to spend the evening

First Known Use of CIVILIZED

1611

Related to CIVILIZED

Synonyms: accomplished, cultivated, couth, cultured, 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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