Meaning of CIVILIZED
| Pronunciation: | | 'sivu`lIzd
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- [adj] having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
- [adj] marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
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| | Synonyms: | | advanced, civil, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, humane, polite |
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| | Antonyms: | | noncivilised, noncivilized | | |
| | See Also: | | educated, industrial, refined | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Civ"i*lized\, a.
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts,
learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not
reconcilable with the present state of civilized
society. --J. Quincy.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, becoming, befitting, bettered, bland, Christian, comme il faut, conforming, converted, correct, cultivated, cultured, dainty, decent, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, done, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, graceful, gracile, gracious, improved, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, smooth, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, wise |
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