civilised

Speech parts

1. civilised - Adjective

2. civilised - Verb

3. civilised - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having a high state of culture and development both social and technological

marked by refinement in taste and manners

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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. Herbert Spencer

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Rudyard Kipling

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. Peter Ustinov

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. Bertrand Russell

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. Christopher Hitchens

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. Thorstein Veblen

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