Synonyms of cultured

cultured 1 of 2

adjective

ˈkəl-chərd 

as in civilized

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

the most highly cultured period of the country's long history

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

cultured

2 of 2

verb

past tense of culture

as in cultivated

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

culture bacteria in laboratory dishes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultivated
• grew
• produced
• planted
• harvested
• promoted
• raised
• reared
• tended
• dressed
• bred
• cropped
• propagated
• rooted
• gathered
• gleaned
• ripened
• sprouted
• germinated
• sowed
• reaped
• quickened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• killed
• picked
• plucked
• pulled (up)
• dug
• uprooted
• extirpated
• cut
• mowed
• hayed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cultured

Adjective

Installed nearby is Mother of Dust (2023), an elegant kinetic sculpture by Nina Canell in which a conveyor belt moves a handful of cultured pearls toward a push broom. — Travis Diehl, The New York Review of Books, 17 Sep. 2026

Fresh pasta made daily, like spaghetti with Burgundy truffles, cultured butter and parmigiano espuma or paccheri al Campagnolo with Maine lobster, tomatoes, capers and olives. — Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026

Verb

Surprisingly, the platform also yielded rare von Economo neurons, specialized cells heavily impacted by frontotemporal dementia that previously couldn’t be cultured effectively in a lab. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

Sarhan and his colleagues cultured some of the samples, and also put some through a process called shotgun metagenomics, which involves sequencing all the bits of DNA floating around in a sample. — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026