- civilized, civilised - having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
Antonyms: noncivilized, noncivilised, barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild, barbarous, preliterate, nonliterate, primitive
- civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite - marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
Antonym: unrefined (indirect, via refined)
- educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise - train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
--1 is one way to polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun civilization4
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- civilize, civilise - raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun civilization1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody