Cultured

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
     1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." --Shenstone.
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     2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;
        refined; well-educated.


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              The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured
              people, is less often met with than other mental
              endowments.                           --I. Taylor.
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              The cunning hand and cultured brain.  --Whittier.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.]
     To cultivate; to educate.
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           They came . . . into places well inhabited and
           cultured.                                --Usher.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cultured
       adj : marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
             speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a
             genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: {civilized},
             {civilised}, {cultivated}, {genteel}, {polite}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "cultured":
     abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, bettered, civilized,
     converted, cultivated, dainty, deep, delicate, developed,
     discriminating, distingue, educated, elegant, embellished,
     encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, fastidious,
     fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful,
     gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered,
     literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric,
     polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly,
     scholastic, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured,
     transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise