Synonyms of civilized

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civilized 1 of 2

adjective

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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civilized

2 of 2

verb

past tense of civilize

as in urbanized

Synonyms & Similar Words

• urbanized
• citified
• cultivated