cultivated
adjective
Simple meaning
Well-educated and having good manners.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
kuhltuhvaytidSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈkʌltəveɪtɪd
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
adjective
of a person
Cultured, refined, educated
of a plant
Grown by cultivation (not wild)
of land
Farmed
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
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This meaning: (of a person) cultured, refined, educated
Used this way, cultivated is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
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- “The farmer worked hard to keep his fields properly cultivated for the new crops.”adjective
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
Widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked.
Any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms.
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
European biennial having a long fusiform root that has been made palatable through cultivation.
Plants that are grown for their produce.
Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population.
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Antonyms
Sense: cultured or refined or educated
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