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cultured

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of cultured

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

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

Synonyms of cultured

accomplished, civilized, couth, cultivated, genteel, polished, refined

Words Related to cultured

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 cultured

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 cultured

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

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