vverb.socialteach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgmentSynset:civilise civilize cultivate educate school train
Examples:- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
Derivationally Related Form:civilisationcultivationcivilizationeducation
Hypernyms:down fine-tune polish refine
Inherited Hypernyms:educatepolishbetterchange
Direct Hyponyms:sophisticate
Full Troponyms:sophisticate
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody
vverb.changeraise from a barbaric to a civilized stateSynset:civilise civilize
Examples:- The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
Derivationally Related Form:civilisationcivilization
Hypernyms:alter change modify
Inherited Hypernyms:civilizechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody
adjadj.allhaving a high state of culture and development both social and technologicalSynset:civilized
Examples:- terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world
Antonyms:noncivilized
Inherited Hypernyms:civilized
Similar to:advanced civil humane
See also:educated refined
adj satadj.allmarked by refinement in taste and mannersSynset:civilized cultivated cultured genteel polite
Examples:- cultivated speech
- cultured Bostonians
- cultured tastes
- a genteel old lady
- polite society
Antonyms:unrefined
Derivationally Related Form:genteelness
Inherited Hypernyms:civilized
Similar to:refined