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cultured
[ kuhl-cherd ]
adjective
- having or characterized by culture; refined; enlightened:
civilized and cultured peoples; music and other cultured pursuits.
Synonyms: genteel, elegant, sophisticated, polished
- artificially nurtured or grown:
cultured bacteria.
- cultivated; tilled.
cultured
/ ˈkʌltʃəd /
adjective
- showing or having good taste, manners, upbringing, and education
- artificially grown or synthesized
cultured pearls
- sport of superior quality, as though the product of special training
a cultured backhand
a cultured left foot
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Other Words From
- non·cultured adjective
- over·cultured adjective
- semi·cultured adjective
- well-cultured adjective
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Example Sentences
Playboy: So you got rich, cultured, secure—then what happened?
The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.
Stephens, a sociologist at Cardiff University, has spent years studying the development of “cultured” meat.
Because we live in a cultural stereotype and only men watch sports, only women are cultured, Mars, Venus, etc.
Yet Germany before the Nazi takeover was the most cultured, advanced, and cosmopolitan society in the world.
Rullock, the cultured man, was hurt when he heard education mentioned lightly.
The educated, cultured man never loses his temper, seldom utters an angry word.
She loved music, and a sweet, gracious woman whose music wins the most cultured sang song after song.
These tracts are valuable as eye-openers to uneducated workmen, but they possess no merit whatsoever for cultured liberals.
Friendship with such cultured, interesting people would broaden the horizon of my whole life.
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