civilized

Speech parts

1. civilized - Adjective

2. civilized - Verb

4. civilized - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Civilize

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cultivated cultured polite genteel civilised gallant developed humane anthropological civil formal domestic advanced proper diplomatic

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Antonyms

noncivilized berber savage barbary feller brut

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Phrases with the word

partially civilized civilized time civilized century civilized times civilized age civilized citizen

Examples

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Ezra Pound

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. Elbert Hubbard

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. William O. Douglas

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh

Close letter words and terms

civilizationally civilizatory civilize civilized age civilized alliance civilized century