cultivated

cultivated

adjective

Definition of CULTIVATED

: refined, educated <cultivated speech> <cultivated tastes>

Examples of CULTIVATED

1. <the museum's annual gala for charity attracts not only a very wealthy, but also a very cultivated crowd>

First Known Use of CULTIVATED

1665

Related to CULTIVATED

Synonyms

accomplished, civilized, 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