cultivated
- Adjective:
- Refined and well-educated: Describing a person who has developed sophisticated tastes, manners, and knowledge through education and experience.
- Developed through human effort: Describing a plant or crop that has been selectively bred and grown for human use, as opposed to existing in a wild state.
- Prepared for agriculture: Describing land that has been plowed, fertilized, and made ready for growing crops.
Describing a person: She is a cultivated individual with a deep appreciation for classical music and fine art.His cultivated manners made him a charming guest at the dinner party.
Describing a plant: These cultivated strawberries are much larger and sweeter than their wild counterparts.The garden featured a variety of cultivated roses.
Describing land: The vast expanse of cultivated land stretched to the horizon.They converted the wild meadow into cultivated fields for wheat.
"Cultivated taste": A refined appreciation for things considered elegant or of high quality, developed through experience. Her cultivated taste in wine was evident from her expertly chosen pairing for the meal.
"Cultivated mind": An intellect that has been carefully developed and enriched through study and reflection. He possessed a cultivated mind, able to discuss philosophy and literature with ease.
Cultivate (verb): To prepare and use land for crops; to try to acquire or develop a quality, skill, or relationship. Farmers cultivate the soil. / She sought to cultivate a sense of calm.
Cultivation (noun): The action of cultivating land; the process of trying to acquire or develop something. The cultivation of rice requires specific conditions. / His cultivation of influential contacts helped his career.
Uncultivated (adjective): (Of land) not used for growing crops; (of a person) not refined or well-educated. The uncultivated hills were covered in wild brush.
- Refined: Elegant and cultured in appearance, manner, or taste.
- Cultured: Characterized by refined taste and manners and a good education.
- Genteel: Polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way.
- Tamed: (For plants/animals) domesticated or brought from a wild state under human control.
- Uncultivated: (As above).
- Wild: (Of plants or land) growing or living in a natural state; not cultivated.
- Unrefined: Lacking sophistication or good taste.
- Coarse: Rough or harsh in texture; lacking refinement.
- marked by refinement in taste and manners
- cultivated speech
- cultured Bostonians
- cultured tastes
- a genteel old lady
- polite society
- no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
- cultivated roses
- cultivated blackberries
- (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
- cultivated land