civilized

Meanings

Verb

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
• raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
  • "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
• simple past and past participle of civilize

Adjective

• having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
  • "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

Adjective Satellite

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

Adj

• Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization.
• Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.
• Marked by refinement in taste and manners.

Synonyms

civilise, civilised, civilize, cultivate, cultivated, cultured, educate, genteel, polite, school, train

Antonyms

noncivilized

Related Words

civil, civilize

Anagrams of civilized