cultivated

having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living the museum's annual gala for charity attracts not only a very wealthy, but also a very cultivated crowd Synonyms accomplished, civilized, couth, cultured, genteel, polished, refined 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 Antonyms barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined