civilized
Americanadjective
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having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
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polite; well-bred; refined.
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of or relating to civilized people.
The civilized world must fight ignorance.
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easy to manage or control; well organized or ordered.
The car is quiet and civilized, even in sharp turns.
adjective
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having a high state of culture and social development
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cultured; polite
a civilized discussion
Other Word Forms
- civilizedness noun
- half-civilized adjective
- hypercivilized adjective
- noncivilized adjective
- subcivilized adjective
- supercivilized adjective
- ultracivilized adjective
- well-civilized adjective
Etymology
Origin of civilized
Example Sentences
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They settled on House No. 2, which also appeared civilized but in a less unsavory location.
It’s the civilized thing to do, and the U.S. is a civilized nation.
As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.
If Imogene could keep it up, I thought, till she got to be civilized, if that ever happened, she could be almost anything she wanted to be in life.
From Literature
Instead, he embraced the manly duty of the “great civilized nations of the present day” to ensure that the countries of the Western Hemisphere remain “stable, orderly, and prosperous.”
From Salon
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