civilized Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    educate; civilise; school; train; cultivate; civilize.
    • Cultivate your musical taste
    • Train your tastebuds
    • She is well schooled in poetry
  2. verb raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
    civilize; civilise.
    • The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
  3. adjective having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
    civilised.
    • terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world
  4. adjective satellite marked by refinement in taste and manners
    civilised; polite; cultured; genteel; cultivated.
    • cultivated speech
    • cultured Bostonians
    • cultured tastes
    • a genteel old lady
    • polite society

WordNet


Civ"i*lized adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913