Synonyms of urbanized

urbanized 1 of 2

adjective

as in urban

Related Words

• urban
• citified
• metropolitan
• municipal
• metro
• nonfarm
• nonagricultural

Dissimilar Words

• rural
• country
• bucolic
• pastoral
• rustic
• provincial
• agricultural
• agrarian
• backwoods
• countrified
• backwoodsy

urbanized

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verb

past tense of urbanize

as in civilized

to accustom to the ways of the city

every September the city of Boston urbanizes a new crop of college students from small towns across the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• civilized
• citified
• cultivated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of urbanized

Adjective

In Southern California, the numbers of American robins and goldfinches increased in urbanized areas. — Mack Baysinger follow, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026

But in a heavily urbanized East Coast, especially New York City, temperatures could also feel hotter through the urban heat island effect. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 July 2026

During the first 10 weeks of the course, students learn how people, trees and cities changed as communities across the country urbanized. — Sharon Jean-Philippe, The Conversation, 25 June 2026

The water quality decline in the latest report compared to the previous year, when conditions were drier, indicates that in highly urbanized regions, such as Southern California, rainfall often means higher levels of bacteria in surface water, Meurice said. — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 20 May 2026

As with the counterinsurgency strategy, the approach works in urbanized Russia, but doesn’t translate well into the mostly rural Sahel. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2026

At the same time, Japan has rapidly urbanized. — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 8 May 2026

The Democratic losses are in heavily urbanized Central Florida, Tampa Bay and Southeast Florida, targeting Soto and incumbents Kathy Castor, Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026

For me as a city person now—and maybe for readers in industrial cities in the nineteenth century—learning about the time kept by birds promises to draw us into a world of glorious song and vibrant patterns of life that feel remote in urbanized places. — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026