Synonyms of cultivated

cultivated 1 of 2

adjective

ˈkəl-tə-ˌvā-təd 

as in cultured

having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

the museum's annual gala for charity attracts not only a very wealthy, but also a very cultivated crowd

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultured
• civilized
• accomplished
• polished
• refined
• educated
• polite
• civil
• scholarly
• literate
• sophisticated
• genteel
• couth
• cerebral
• cosmopolitan
• intellectual
• learned
• bourgeois
• highbrow
• knowledgeable
• erudite
• well-bred
• courteous
• intellectualistic
• highbrowed
• urbane
• high-toned
• intellectualist
• middlebrow
• mannerly
• well-read
• overcivilized
• oversophisticated
• hypercivilized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncivilized
• ignorant
• uncultured
• unrefined
• barbarous
• unpolished
• barbaric
• uneducated
• illiterate
• coarse
• unlettered
• unintelligent
• lowbrow
• rustic
• provincial
• ungenteel
• unsophisticated
• backwoods
• philistine
• crude
• uncouth
• vulgar
• boorish
• polyester
• ill-bred
• rustical
• clownish
• inelegant
• ill-mannered
• churlish
• cloddish

cultivated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of cultivate

1

as in developed

to come to have gradually

cultivated a taste for opera in order to fit in with his new circle of friends

Synonyms & Similar Words

• developed
• acquired
• formed
• gained
• adopted
• obtained
• got
• embraced
• absorbed
• achieved
• attained
• reached
• promoted
• fostered
• nurtured
• took on
• took in
• nourished

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lost
• abandoned
• deserted
• forsook
• discarded
• rejected
• dumped
• shed
• unloaded
• jettisoned
• cast
• sloughed
• ditched
• threw away
• scrapped
• flung (off or away)
• threw out
• junked
• shucked (off)
• sluffed

2

as in promoted

to help the growth or development of

cultivated a passion for learning among his students over the years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promoted
• nurtured
• encouraged
• fostered
• advanced
• incubated
• forwarded
• nourished
• furthered
• advocated
• assisted
• supported
• funded
• endorsed
• championed
• financed
• nursed
• upheld
• indorsed
• aided
• backed
• endowed
• patronized
• subsidized
• staked
• advertised
• publicized
• worked (for)
• abetted
• wrought (for)
• boosted
• touted
• underwrote
• agitated (for)
• plugged
• campaigned (for)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inhibited
• hindered
• prevented
• prohibited
• discouraged
• opposed
• frustrated
• proscribed
• enjoined
• banned
• outlawed
• barred
• fought
• forbade
• countered
• suppressed
• combated
• contended (with)
• repressed
• subdued
• stifled
• checked
• arrested
• battled
• combatted
• squashed
• interdicted
• halted
• retarded
• forbad
• squelched
• impeded
• interfered (with)
• encumbered
• obstructed
• hobbled
• shackled
• snuffed (out)
• fettered
• manacled

3

as in grew

to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care

in an attempt to produce New World counterparts of the wines that he had enjoyed in Europe, Jefferson cultivated several varieties of grapes at Monticello

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grew
• produced
• planted
• harvested
• promoted
• raised
• cultured
• tended
• reared
• bred
• cropped
• dressed
• propagated
• rooted
• gathered
• gleaned
• sowed
• ripened
• sprouted
• reaped
• germinated
• quickened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• killed
• picked
• plucked
• dug
• uprooted
• pulled (up)
• extirpated
• cut
• mowed
• hayed

4

as in harvested

to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on

we ought to cultivate the field out back

Synonyms & Similar Words

• harvested
• planted
• farmed
• tended
• tilled
• cropped
• reaped
• harrowed
• hoed
• sharecropped

Examples of cultivated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

The cultivated meat industry thinks its technology provides a better option. —Julia Horowitz, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022

The cultivated meat space could be worth $25 billion by 2030. —Khaled Bin Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022

The cultivated meat industry has gotten considerable attention and investment in recent years amid growing concerns about global warming, the treatment of animals and industrial farming. —Clare Toeniskoetter, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the world’s first head of government to taste cultivated meat in public, sampling Aleph Farms steak on Dec. 7, 2020. —Time, 30 Nov. 2022