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cultivated

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of 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 of cultivated

accomplished, civilized, couth, cultured, genteel, polished, refined

Words Related to cultivated

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 cultivated

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 cultivated

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

cultivated

verb , past tense of cultivate

Synonyms and Antonyms of cultivated

1 to come to have gradually

cultivated a taste for opera in order to fit in with his new circle of friends

Synonyms of cultivated

acquired, developed, formed

Words Related to cultivated

absorbed, adopted, embraced, took in, took on

gained, got, obtained

achieved, attained, reached

fostered, nourished, nurtured, promoted

Near Antonyms of cultivated

abandoned, deserted, forsook

cast, discarded, ditched, dumped, flung (off or away), jettisoned, junked, rejected, scrapped, shed, shucked (off), sloughed (also sluffed), threw away, threw out, unloaded

Antonyms of cultivated

2 to help the growth or development of

cultivated a passion for learning among his students over the years

Synonyms of cultivated

advanced, encouraged, forwarded, fostered, furthered, incubated, nourished, nursed, nurtured, promoted

Words Related to cultivated

advocated, backed, championed, endorsed (also indorsed), supported, upheld

endowed, financed, funded, patronized, staked, subsidized, underwrote

abetted, aided, assisted

advertised, boosted, plugged, publicized, touted

agitated (for), campaigned (for), worked (for) (or wrought (for))

Near Antonyms of cultivated

banned, barred, enjoined, forbade (also forbad), interdicted, outlawed, prevented, prohibited, proscribed

battled, combated (or combatted), contended (with), countered, fought, opposed

repressed, snuffed (out), squashed, squelched, stifled, subdued, suppressed

arrested, checked, halted, retarded

encumbered, fettered, hobbled, impeded, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled

Antonyms of cultivated

discouraged, frustrated, hindered, inhibited

3 to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care

in an attempt to produce New World counterparts of the wines that he had enjoyed in Europe, Jefferson cultivated several varieties of grapes at Monticello

Synonyms of cultivated

cropped, cultured, dressed, grew, promoted, raised, reared, tended

Words Related to cultivated

bred, produced, propagated

gathered, gleaned, harvested, reaped

germinated, quickened, ripened, rooted, sprouted

Near Antonyms of cultivated

dug, extirpated, picked, plucked, pulled (up), uprooted

cut, hayed, mowed

4 to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on

we ought to cultivate the field out back

Synonyms of cultivated

farmed, tended, tilled

Words Related to cultivated

cropped, planted

harvested, reaped

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