Synonyms of civilized

civilized 1 of 2

adjective

as in cultured

having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

a civilized older couple who are celebrated for holding dinner parties that are attended by the city's best and brightest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultured
• polished
• accomplished
• cultivated
• polite
• civil
• educated
• refined
• genteel
• literate
• sophisticated
• scholarly
• couth
• cosmopolitan
• intellectual
• cerebral
• bourgeois
• highbrow
• intellectualistic
• courteous
• urbane
• well-bred
• erudite
• mannerly
• knowledgeable
• learned
• high-toned
• intellectualist
• highbrowed
• middlebrow
• well-read
• hypercivilized
• overcivilized
• oversophisticated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncivilized
• barbaric
• barbarous
• ignorant
• uncultured
• uneducated
• unrefined
• unpolished
• illiterate
• unlettered
• coarse
• unintelligent
• provincial
• rustic
• lowbrow
• philistine
• ungenteel
• unsophisticated
• backwoods
• crude
• uncouth
• vulgar
• boorish
• inelegant
• ill-mannered
• ill-bred
• churlish
• clownish
• polyester
• rustical
• cloddish

civilized

2 of 2

verb

past tense of civilize

as in cultivated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultivated
• urbanized
• citified