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civilized

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of civilized

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 cityʼs best and brightest

Synonyms of civilized

accomplished, couth, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined

Words Related to civilized

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 of civilized

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

Antonyms of civilized

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

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