westernized
Speech parts
1. westernized - Adjective
2. westernized - Verb
Meaning
westernized
simple past and past participle of westernize
westernized (comparative more westernized, superlative most westernized)
Having been made culturally Western.
Synonyms
Examples
As a result, Westernized pieces have never become popular.
Assimilation was practiced in Ivory Coast to the extent that after 1930, a small number of Westernized Ivoirians were granted the right to apply for French citizenship.
Critics often allege that Westernized, white, male-dominated psychiatric practices and diagnoses disadvantage and misunderstand those from other groups.
Ever since the Portuguese left Goa, Goa has turned itself to being one of the most westernized and dashing places in India, which is much frequented and loved by tourists from across the world.
Fuller, Graham E., The Future of Political Islam, Palgrave MacMillan, (2003), pp.70-71 These all challenged Westernized ruling elites on behalf of 'authenticity' and tradition.
In the mid 1950s the mbira was the basis for the development of the kalimba, a westernized version designed and marketed by the ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, leading to a great expansion of its distribution outside of Africa.