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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological;
- Example: "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
[syn: civilized, civilised]

2. marked by refinement in taste and manners;
- Example: "cultivated speech"
- Example: "cultured Bostonians"
- Example: "cultured tastes"
- Example: "a genteel old lady"
- Example: "polite society"
[syn: civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Civilize \Civ"i*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Civilized; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Civilizing.] [Cf. F. civilizer, fr.L. civilis civil.
   See Civil.]
   1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules
      and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
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            Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
            Her land to civilize, as to subdue.   --Dryden
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.]
      "Civilizing adultery." --Milton.

   Syn: To polish; refine; humanize.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Civilized \Civ"i*lized\, a.
   Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts,
   learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
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         Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not
         reconcilable with the present state of civilized
         society.                                 --J. Quincy.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

civilized
    adj 1: having a high state of culture and development both
           social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked
           the civilized world" [syn: civilized, civilised]
           [ant: noncivilised, noncivilized]
    2: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
       speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel
       old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized, civilised,
       cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "civilized":
   Christian, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, becoming,
   befitting, bettered, bland, comme il faut, conforming, converted,
   correct, cultivated, cultured, dainty, decent, deep, delicate,
   developed, discriminating, done, educated, elegant, embellished,
   encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine,
   graceful, gracile, gracious, improved, learned, lettered, literate,
   nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath,
   polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic,
   smooth, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed,
   urbane, wise